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INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 
phous, cordate or peltate, coarsely-'toothed, palmately nerved, 
glabrous above, white tomentose beneath ; blade 10-40in. by 
6-12 in ; petioles 5 in. long, stout. Flowers axillary, very large, 
and fragrant. Sepals linear brown tomentose without, paler 
within, 6 by 5in. Petals white, shorter than the sepals. Stami- 
nodes club-shaped, stouter and longer than the filamented 
anthers. Stamina! column glabrous, l-5in. long, filaments 
slender. Gynophore longer than the staminal-column. Ovary 
5-angled, densely brown -tomentose ; style long, stout with a 
club-shaped stigma ; ovarian cells many-ovuled. Capsule 4-6 
in. long, 5 angled ; 5-celled. Seeds numerous, winged ; albumen 
mucilaginous, scanty ; cotyledons thin, folded. (Talbot. P. 149, 
Vol. I, Forest Flora, Bombay Presidency and Sind, 1909). 
Parts used The leaves, bark, and flowers. 
Uses : —The down on the leaves is used to stop bleeding 
in wounds (Gamble). The flowers are used as a general tonic 
(T. N. Mukerji). 
184. Pentapetes phcenicea, Linn. 
1.371., Roxb. 157. 
San. : — liaktaka, Bandhuka, bandhujiva, arka-vallabha, 
pushpa rakta. 
Vern . : — Kat-laia, Doopahuria (B.) ; Guidu. Paria (Pb.) 
Bare baba (Santal) ; Tambdi dupari (Mar ) ; N4g-pu (Tam.) ; 
Dopabariya, dopohoria (H.) ; Bare baha (Santal); 
Habitat : — Throughout the hotter parts of India. 
Annual herbs, branched, 2-5 ft., glabrous, or with a few 
scattered stellate hairs. Leaves 3-5 in., 1-nerved, crenate-ser- 
rate, petiole lin. Stipules subulate. Peduncle simple, axillary, 
as long as or longer than the petiole, 1-2-flowered, jointed near 
the flower. Bracteoles half the length of the Calyx. Flowers 
red, opening at noon and closing at the following dawn. Hence 
in Bombay it is called Dupari or Madhuk. (See A collection of 
Marathi Poems, Navanita, page 406, 4th edition, Bombay). 
Sepals 5, stellate-hairy, with a few bristles, lanceolate. Petals 5, 
