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INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 
Habitat : — Throughout the hotter parts of India dnd 
Ceylon. 
An erect, much-branched undershrub ; stems slender, 
rough, with minute stellate hairs, often with small, recurved 
prickles at the nodes below the petioles. Leaves 1-lJ in., oval or 
oblong, obtuse, coarsely cronate-serrate, glabrous above, finely 
stellate-pubescent beneath. Petiole £-§ in., stellate-pubescent. 
Flowers white, £ in., pedicels in., slender, jointed near top. 
Calyx hairy, segments short, triangular, acute ; ripe carpels 5, 
with 2 long, erect, rough scales, equalling the Calyx. Seeds 
solitary. Radicle superior. 
Parts used : — The leaves and root. 
Uses : — The leaves are demulcent and refrigerant, and are 
useful in some cases of gonorrhoea, gleet and scalding urine. 
The decoction of the root-bark and root is used as a 
demulcent in irritability of the bladder and in gonorrhoea, says 
J. Indraji. 
The root acts as a gentle tonic and diaphoretic, and is 
employed in mild cases of debility and fever. 
The leaves are bruised in water, strained through cloth 
and administered in the form of a draught; the root is used in 
decoction, prepared in a similar manner to that of S. caprini- 
folia (Moodeen Sheriff;. 
150. S. caprinifolia, Linn., h . f . b . i ., i . 323. 
Syn. : — S. acuta, Burm. S. lanceolata, Roxb. 517. 
Sans. : — Bala Pbanijivika (J. Indraji). 
Vern. : — Kareta (B. and H.) ; Vishaboddee (Tel.); Bariaca 
kareta (Hind.) ; Pila barela, koreta, bon-methi (Beng.) ; Isbadi, 
Isarbadi (Dec.) ; Bala, jangli-methi (Bomb.), Tupkaria, tukati, 
chikana pata (Mar.) ; jungli inethi (Guz.) ; Maloconni (Malay.); 
Vata tirippi, malaitangi, mayir-manikkam, visha-boddi, chiti- 
mutti, mutu-vapulogum (Tam.) 
Habitat : — Throughout the hotter parts of India and Ceylon. 
A perennial undershrub, generally distributed throughout 
the hotter parts of India. Leaves nearly glabrous, narrow, 
