IT. 0. 0EA8SU LACE.33. 
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trifoliate, upper few, scattered, linear, f-£in. long. Corymb 
flattish or more rarely elongate. Flowers clear, yellow ; tbe 
Corolla-tube glabyous. Calyx in fruit often as much as fin. 
wide, 4-partite, elongate. Corolla, with a flask-shape tube and 
spreading 4-fid limb, much exceeding the Calyx, persistent. 
Stamens 8, in two series, adnate to the Corolla-tube, hypogyn- 
ous scaled' 4, linear. Carpels 4, adnate to the base of the 
Corolla-tube, attenuated into long styles ; ovules very many. 
Follicles 4, seeds very many, oblong, ellipsoid, with 8-15 longi- 
tudinal ribs. 
Part used : — The leaf. 
Use : — It is poisonous to goats, and the leaves are, at Lahore, 
reckoned a specific for cholera. In Kangra, they are burned and 
applied to abscesses. (Stewart). 
484 . Kalanehoe laciniata, DC., h.f.b.i., jli. 415 . 
Syn. : — Cotyledon lanciniata, Roxb. 388 ; K. teretifolia, 
Raw. 
Sans. Hemsagara (Sea of Goldj. 
Vern. : — Tukhmhyat, Parna-bij (Bomb.) ; Mala-kullie 
(Tam.). 
Habitat : — Tropical regions of the Deccan Peninsula, in 
Bengal, at Patna and Dacca. 
A sufiruticose, fleshy plant. Leaves opposite, pinnatifid- 
laciniate, the lobes thick, entire, sub-serrate or dentate. Cymes 
•panicled. Calyx 4-partite, sepals lanceolate, acuminate, spread- 
ing. Corolla hypocrateriform ; tube cylindrical ; limb spread- 
ing, 4-partite. Carpels 4 ; styles filiform. 
There are 3 varieties. 
C7ses:- The succulent leaves are valued as an application 
to wounds and sores ; they allay irritation and promote cicatri- 
zation. In the Concan, the juice of the leaves is given in bilious 
diarrhoea and lithiasis. (Dymock). 
I can myself speak of their good effects in cleaning ulcers 
and allaying inflammation (Ainslie). 
