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INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 
The dried leaves, soaked in water and made into a poultice, 
are used in indolent ulcers (Watt). 
The properties of this plant are said, according to Sanskrit 
writers, to resemble those of J. grandiflorum (Dutt). 
733 . J. pubescena, Willd., h.f.b.i., hi . 592 ; 
Roxb. 31 . 
Sans. : — Kunda. 
Vern Mogra (M.) ; Koonda(B.) ; Kundphul, Kunda, Cha- 
meli (H.) ; Katu-tsjiregam-mulla (Malay), Vikhm Mogra (Bomb.). 
Habitat Common, from the Himalaya throughout India. 
A scandent short shrub. The stem spirally twisted, tV 11 - 
wedges, which turn round each other rope-fashion. Bark light- 
brown, extremely thin. Wood white, moderately hard (Gamble). 
Branchlets, pedicels and Calyx densely fulvous-villous. Leaves, 
simple, ovate acute, often mucronate, opposite, softly tomentose 
on both surfaces, often at length glabrate above, beased round 
or often cordate ; main nerves 4-6 pairs. Petiole i-fin. long, 
densely villous. Flowers white, fragrant, sessile, in dense, 
terminal capitate cymes, often at the extremeties of short 
axillary branches ; bracts large, ovate, acute, foliaceous, green. 
Calyx $-|in. long, densely fulvous-villous, teeth, linear, i-fin. 
long, subulate, fulvous-hairy. Corolla glabrous ; tube f-£in. 
long ; lobes 6 — 9, elliptic-oblong, acute, often mucronate, ^in. 
long. Carpels 1-2, globose, £in. diam., black, surrounded by 
the suberect Calyx-teeth. 
Uses : — Dried leaves, soaked in water and made into a poul- 
tice, used in indolent ulcers to generate a healthy action. Root 
said to be an efficient antidote in snake-bite (Lindley and 
S. Arjun). 
734 . J. arborescens, Roxb., h.f.b.i., Hi. 594 ; 
Roxb. 32 . 
Sons. : — Madhavi ; Nava-mallika ; Saptala. 
Vern. -Khsar ranjai, ktind (Bomb.) ; Bara-kunda (B.) ; 
Adivi-mulli (Tel.) ; Chameli ; bara Kunda (H.) 
