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INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 
Uses: — It is given in accordance with the “ doctrine of 
signatures ” as a remedy for leprosy in the Concan ; it appears 
to be simply mucilaginous like most of the gums. (Dymock)' 
Its roots are used by the Goanese as the substitute of 
Althaea. 
191 . G. villosa, Willd. h.f.b.i., i. 388 . 
Vern : — Gaphni (Kol) ; Tarse kotap (Santal) ; Jalidar 
kaskusri, thamther (Pb.) ; In zarra, pastuwanne (Pushtu ; 
Dhoban (Ajmer). Kharmati (Mar). Pade Khado (Gujrat and 
Porebunder) ; Luskand j had (Cutch). 
Habitat ■ — Western and Southern India, extending from 
PaDjab and Sind to Travancore. Gujrat, Porebundar, Kutch. 
A shrub often gregarious. Branches, leaves and inflores- 
cence densely silky, with long stellate hairs. Leaves not hoary 
beneath, nearly orbicular, from a cordate base ; 1-4 in. diam., 
rugose, transverse veins numerous, prominent and parallel, 
tufts of sikly hairs in the serratures. Secondary nerves not 
arched. Petiole £-1 in. Base of leaves 5-nerved. Stipules 
broad, leafy. Flowers dull-yellow, peduncles very short, in 
compact axillary clusters, sometimes opposite the leaves. Bracts 
oblong. Sepals oblong or linear-acute, villous, membranous, 
■j in. long, clothed on both sides with short stellate hairs, out- 
side also with simple hairs, the tips often with a long-branched 
and stellate process. Blade of petal thin, twice the length of a 
claw, oblong, notched, much shorter than the sepals. Fruit 
globose, size of cherry, with a distinct crustaceous brown rind, 
with tufts of long stellate hairs ; pulp pleasant. Stones 4, 1-2- 
seeded. 
The sweet acid fruit is used as dessert by the poor of 
Porebunder. The juice of fresh bark is used with sugar and 
water for gonorrhoea and urinary complaints attended with irrita 
bility of the bladder. 
Part used : — The root. 
Use: — The root is employed for diarrhoea in Chutia 
Nagpur (Revd. A. Campbell.) 
