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examined the bark of the Hymenodyctyon excelsnm, bat mast have been deal- 
ing with some other bark. 
596. Oldenlandia eorymbosa, Linn, h.f.b.i., ill. 
64. 
Syn. : — 0. biflora, Lamk., 0. vamosa, Roxb. 142. 
Sans. : — Kshetraparpati ; Parpata. 
V ern. : — Daman-papar tH.); Khetpapra (B.) ; Paripat (Mar.) ; 
Popato, K&zuri (Goa). 
Habitat: — An abundant weed tbrougbout India, from the 
Punjab, Southward and Eastward, to Ceylon and Malacca. 
A slender herb up to 1ft. or more high, but often diminutive 
and straggling. Leaves sessile, l-2in. long, linear or linear- 
lanceolate, erect, or spreading ; margins scabrous and often 
revolute; stipules short, membranous, dentate or bristly. 
Peduncles axillary, solitary, slender, shorter than the leaves, 
usually 2-3-flowered ; pedicels filiform; bracts, subulate. Calyx- 
teeth subulate, nearly equalling the tube when in flower. Corolla 
white, its tube short. Capsule usually broad, didymous or 
globose or narrowed to the base, not ribbed, the crown not rising 
above the base of the calyx-teeth. 
It is an extremely variable plant, and some of its forms, 
cannot easily be distinguished from 0. diffusa (Duthie). 
Uses : — By Sanskrit authors it is considered a cooling 
medicine of importance in the treatment of fevers supposed to be 
caused by deranged air and bile, that is, remittent fever, with 
gastric irritability and nervous depression. The entire plant is 
prescribed in decoction, and is combined with aromatics. 
In Goa, it is much used combined with Adiantum limatum 
and Hydrocotyle asiatica as an alterative in low forms of fever. 
In the Concan, the juice is applied in burning of the palms of 
the hand and soles of the feet from fever ; in burning at the pit 
of the stomach the juice is given internally with a little milk 
and sugar (dose 1 tola of the juice obtained by pounding' the 
plant with water). The decoction is given in remittent fever, 
and is also applied to the surface of the body. It is also given 
internally to cure heat eruptions (Dymock), 
