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INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 
532. L. acutangula, Roxb. h.f.b.i., ii. 615 ; 
Roxb. 698. 
Sans. Jhingaka. 
Vern. : — Turai (H.) ; Jhing4 (B.) ; Peekunkai (Tam.) ; Pee- 
chenggah (Mai.); Beerkai (Tel.) ; Janlii (Uriya) ; Paror jhinga 
(Santal.) ; Rdm-toroi (Nepal; ; Turi (Sind.) ; Dorka (C. P.) ; 
Shirola (Mar.); Turin, Guisoda (Guz.). 
Habitat North-West India ; Sikkim ; Assam and Plains 
of East Bengal. 
Extensively climbing, hairy annuals ; tendrils 2-3-fid. Leaves 
4in. diam., reniform-orbicular, 5-angled or somewhat 5-lobed, 
dentate, usually scabrous, punctate on both surfaces, pubescent 
in nerves beneath ; petiole 2in. Male peduncles 6in., flowers 
often approximate near the summit; pedicels short, each carrying 
a small, entire, viscid bract, sometimes obsolete. Petals 5, 
obovate, united ; stamens 3. Female flowers solitary ; peduncle 
I-3in. Fruit 5-10 inches, often 2-ft. long, 10-angled, not 
covered with spines or papilae. Seeds numerous, close-packed, 
scarcely £in. The flowers open in the afternoon. 
f7se:— The seeds possess purgative and emetic properties 
and also yield an oil. 
The pounded leaves are applied locally to splenitis, haemor- 
rhoids and leprosy (Emerson). The juice of the fresh leaves is 
dropped into the eyes of children in granular conjunctivitis, 
also to prevent the lids adhering at night from excessive 
meibomian secretion (P. Kinsley in Watt’s Dictionary). 
533. L. acutangula, Var : — Amara, h.f.b.i., ii. 
615 ; Roxb 699. 
Sans. : — Kosbdtaki. 
Vern.: — Karvi-turai (H.) Ghoshilata, Kerula, Tetodhoon- 
dhool (B.); Ran-turai; Kadu-sirola, Kadu-dokra (Bomb.); Sendu- 
beer-kai (Tel.). 
Habitat : — Nearly all India, especially the Western side. 
Exceedingly near L. acutangula, bat distingaished by the leaves a little 
smaller and sometimes whitish. The typical L. amara has the leaves softly 
pubescent at least while young, for they become in age scabrous (0. B. 
Clarke). 
