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INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 
they yield to hot water. Their decoction is therefore useful 
as a fomentation to painful parts. The seeds have a distinct 
control over gonorrhoea, gleet, and chronic cystitis (Moodeen 
Sheriff). 
The juice of leaves about one tola, and ghee one tola, are 
given in catarrhal bilious diarrhoea. K.R.K. 
156. A graveolens, W. & A., hf.b.i., i 327. 
Vern. : — Barkanghi, bara banghi (Cawnpore). Vaddattutti. 
(Tam.) 
Habitat United Provinces, Sindh, Nilgherries, Baluchis- 
tan, Central Provinces, Ceylon waste ground. 
An herbaceous annual, branches covered with clammy 
pubescence, mixed with spreading hairs. Leaves sometimes 
lobed, orbicular-cordate, abruptly acuminate, velvety on both 
sides. Petiole almost as long as the blade; stipules linear; 
reflexed (falcate). Peduncles as long as the petioles. Trimen 
says that the flowers in Ceylon are yellowish, becoming pink 
when withering. Flowers large, orange coloured, with a darker 
centre, ultimately reflexed. Sepals ovate, acuminate ; petals 
obcordate. Carpels 20 or more, truncate or rounded, hairy ; 
rather longer than the Calyx, notawned. 
Use : — In his Flora of the Upper Gangetic plain (p. 83), 
Duthie writes that the roots, leaves and seeds are medicinal. 
The fresh plant has often a strong and unpleasant smell. Tri- 
men says about the same plant growing in Ceylon “ I do 
not notice any scent in the Ceylon plant.” The uses are the 
same as those of A. indicum. 
157. A. Avicennce, Gcertn., h.f.b.i., i 327. 
Syn. : - Sida abutilon, Linn. 
(Sanskrit) Jaya, Jayanti — J. Indraji. 
Evg, : — The Indian Mallow or American Jute. 
Vern. : — (Gujratand Porebunder) Nabani Khapat, Bhonya 
Kaski, Bhonya-Khapat. 
Habitat : — North-west India, Sindh, Kashmir and Bengal. 
