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INlMAJI MEDICINAL PLAtltS. 
Habitat : — Generally distributed over the hotter parts of 
India and is a weed in waste open ground in Ceylon. 
A perennial herb. Stem 2-4ft., much branched, finely 
stellate-hairy. Leaves very variable, l£-3in., rotundate, usually 
deeply palmately cut into 5 lobes, which are again lobed or 
pinnatifid, serrate, stellately hairy on both sides. Flowers 
bright pink, on short stout, hairy pedicels, axillary, solitary. 
Sepals 5, connate below into cup-shaped Calyx. Petals 5, 
connate and united to tube of stamens. Stamens monadelphous, 
anthers nearly sessile or 5-celled. Bracts a little shorter than 
the Calyx. Ovary 5-celled, with one ovule in each. Styles 10. 
Ripe carpels rounded on back, densely stellate-hairy, set with 
stiff long spines, with deflexed prongs at the extremeties fTri- 
men). An oval glandular pore is situated at base of midrib, 
beneath, in both U. lobata and U. sinuata. 
Use : — In Chutia Nagpur, the root is used as an external 
application for lumbago. 
160. U. repanda., Roxb. h.k.b.i., i. 330. 
Roxb. 519. 
Syn. : — U. Speeiosa, Wall. 
Verv. : — Sikuar (Santal.). 
Habitat : — North-West India, Upper Gangetic plain and 
the Western Peninsula. 
Shrubby, stellate-hairy. Leaves roundish or somewhat 
lobed, shortly petioled, rough above, midrib glandular at the 
base beneath ; lower 2-2|in. long, roundish, rarely lobed, cordate 
at the base, repand-serrate, upper lanceolate. Flowers racemose, 
in alternately leafless clusters. Bracteoles j-fin., suhcoriaceous, 
exceeding the membranous Calyx ; 5, subulate, connate below 
into a cup ; sepals united for half their length ; Corolla pink,, 
twice the length of the bracteoles- Carpels smooth, unarmed* 
Seed ascending smooth. 
Use : — The root and bark are believed by the Santals to 
be a cure for hydrophobia (Campbell). 
