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INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 
or oblong-rhomboid, glabrous above, 2 by 1 Jin., scarcely acum- 
inate ; with the base cuueate or rounded, 3-nerved ; margins 
remotely toothed ; axils of the primary nerves, with tufts of hair ; 
secondary nerves, 3 or 4 pairs, transverse, conspicuous beneath. 
Petiole l-sin. long. Corymbs terminal, subumbellate, stellate, 
pubescent, 2-4in. diam. 4-8-rayed, peduncled ; bracts and bract- 
eoles numerous, hairy, from linear-oblong to -spathulate-oblong 
Calyx-tube glabrous. Calyx-teeth minute, triangular. Corolla- 
lobes in- diam., round, .white. Drupe 5 by pin., compressed, 
subacute, red. .Seed dorsally 2-grooved, ventrally 3-grooved, and 
hardly cpncave. 
Use It is acrid, bitter and astringent, and used as an 
emmenagogue. (S. Arjun.) 
“ It is customary for Hindoo women, who have been confi- 
ned to hang a branch over the room in which they lie, as a 
protection against evil spirits and post-partum haemorrhage.” 
Another superstition is, that if seven pieces of the stem of 
this plant are knotted into a thread made from cotton picked 
by a virgin, the necklace thus formed will cure scrofulous glands. 
A cake made from the flour of eighteen kinds of grain with 
narwel juice, is scraped on one side while hot, well moistened 
with the juice and applied to the head in headache. A wine- 
glassful of the juice of the leases is administered .internally in 
menorrhagia daily, also in post-partum haemorrhage. It is re- 
markable that V. primifolium, an American plant, has also been 
found useful in all uterine diseases characterised by loss of 
blood and in threatened abortion (Dymock). 
591 . Lonicera glauca , II. F. and T. III. II. 
Vern. Shingtik ; Shea ; Sliewa (Pb. and Hindi). 
Habitat : — Temperate N.-W. Himalaya ; Nubra, Zanskar and 
Piti. Titail in Kashmir ; Garwhal and Kumaon. 
An erect, glaucous, densely-branched, wiry undershrub, 
glabrous except as to the margins of the leaves Leaves f by p 
in., obtuse, oblong, base hardly rounded. Petioles ^ in. Bracts 
large, ovate, flat in., glaucous, hispidly ciliate on the margins, 
usually free, or, when the fruits coalesce, sometimes much connate. 
