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INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 
individuals not for 24 hours. The bruised leaves had been 
removed from all after half-an-hour. The pain occasioned was 
absolutely agonizing until the blister rose. We should not be 
justified in recommending these leaves for further trial ; they 
cause more pain than cantharides, and are far inferior to the 
Plumbago (lul ehitra) in celerity and certainty of action ” 
(O’Shaughnessy). 
On the other hand, Dr. Dymock says that he has made 
several experiments with an ethereal tincture of the leaves, 
which leads him to form a much more favourable opinion of 
them. In several instances it blistered rapidly, effectually and 
without causing more pain than the liquor epispasticus of the 
Pharmacopoeia. 
“ In a recent correspondence with the Government of India, 
the Surgeon-General of Madras recommended that this plant 
should be excluded from the revised edition of the Pharmaco- 
peia of India” (Watt). 
The juice of the plant is given internally in spleen ; but it 
causes great pain, and the result is not certain (T. N. Mukerji). 
511. A. senegalensis, Lamk. h.b.f.i., ii. 570. 
Habitat : — Plains of the Punjab and of North-West Hindu- 
stan. 
An annual, glabrous, erect herb, growing in damp places, 
6-24in. Branches sharply quadrangular, Cauline leaves l-2in., 
opposite, elongate-oblong, sessile, sub-auriculate at the base. 
Cymes peduncled, compound. Bracteoles on the cyme-branches, 
minute, linear. Calyx campanulate, with 4 or 8 green lines, 
becoming indistinct in fruit, teeth 4, broad-triangular. Petals 
0, or caducous. Stamens 6 or 8, capsule i^in. diam., globose, 
becoming ultimately red, much exceeding the Calyx-tube. 
Seeds half-ellipsoid, excavated on the plane face. 
Use : — Used as a blistering agent. 
512. Woodfordia floribunda, Salisb. H.F.B.I., 
ii. 572. 
Syn. : — Grislea tomentosa, Roxb. 317. 
Sans. : — Dhataki. 
