662 
INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 
yin. long. Heads in sessile terminal umbels. Corolla almost 
retuse, throat bearded ; tube of Corolla short, not Jin. Fruit a 
syncarpium, of the size of large pea or larger, irregularly lobed. 
Use : — Regarding this, Ainslie makes the following observa- 
tions : — The leaves, in conjunction with certain aromatics, the 
Tamool doctors use in decoction, in cases of diarrhoea and dysen- 
tery, in the quantity of half a tea-cupful twice daily. 
616. Paederia foetida, Linn. hi. 195 ; Roxb. 
229. 
Sans. : — PrSsarani. 
V ern. : — Khip, gandhali, gundali (H.>; GundhabhU-duli 
(H.) ; Prasaram (Bomb.) ; Hiranwel (Mar); Bedoli sutta (Assam); 
Takpoedrik (Lepcha); Padebiri (Sikkim). 
Habitat: — From the Central and Eastern Himalaya, south- 
ward to Malacca and westward to Calcutta. 
A glabrous, foetid shrub. Leaves opposite, long-petioled, 
or nearly glabrous ovate or lanceolate, 2-6 by f-2|in., base 
acute, rounded or cordate ; peteole J-lin. Cyme branches 
opposite panicles 2-6in. long, pubrulous. Bracts minute, ovate, 
or subulate, ciliolate; Flower sessile and pedicelled. Calyx 
small, tube campanulate. Calyx-teeth short, triangular. Corolla 
J-fin., tomento'se. Fruit J-Jin., polished’, crowned with conical 
disk and minute Calyx-teeth. 
Uses : — The decoction prepared of the leaves is considered 
wholesome and nutritive for the sick and convalescent. The 
whole plant is regarded as a specific for rheumatic affections, 
in which it is administered both internally and externally (Dutt). 
The roots are used by the Hindoos as an emetic (Rox- 
burgh). 
The juice of the leaves is considered astringent and given 
to children when suffering from diarrhoea : dose 1 drachm. 
(Surgeon Mukerji, in Watt’s Dictionary). 
“ The fruit is used to blacken the teeth by* Lepchas and 
Pharias ; this, they say, is a specific against tooth-ache ” 
(Gamble). 
