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INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 
base rounded, acute or subcordate, nerves strong beneath and , 
all running toward the point in three oblique pairs. Petiole 
Cymes terminal, lax, white — tomentose. Pedicels shorter 
than Calyx-lobes which are hoary without. Sepals red, fin. 
long, linear-lanceolate, glandular within. Corolla white, tube 
5-ribbed, jin. long lobes obliquely orbicular ; tube and throat 
both cylindric, sub-equal, limb 1 Jin. diam. Ovary pubescent at 
tip. Style slender, top lanceolate, stigma columnar, to the tip 
of which the anthers are attached. Follicles 3-5in., stout, nearly 
Jin. diam.; pericarp thickly coriaceous. Seeds (unripe) ovate- 
oblong, Jin. long, flat. Ovary wholly included in the tubular 5- 
lobed disk (J. D. Hooker). 
Use : — Used for the same purposes as A. calycina. 
764. A. calycina, A. Dc. h.f.b.i., iii. 664. 
Syn. : — Echites caryophyllata, Roxb. 245. 
Sans. : — Hdlati. 
Vern. : — Malati. 
Habitat : — Tavoy ; Gomez. 
A stout, evergreen climber. Branches pubescent. Leaves 3-4ih., 
coriaceous, elliptic or oblong-lancpolate, acuminate, glabrous, 
nerves 7-10 pairs, arching, slender. Petiole Jin. Cymes many— fid, 
densely rusty-tomentose, lax, terminal. Peduncle and pedicels 
stout. Sepals f-lin., eglandular. Corolla-tube Jin. long, hoary, 
slender, cylindric, base hardly dilated, narrowed upwards to the 
mouth, villous within ; Corolla-lobes ovate-acute. Ovary quite 
glabrous. Style elongate-clavate, truncate ; stigma columnar. 
Fruit unknown (J. D. Hooker). 
Use : — According to Sanskrit authors, this plant is heating 
and tonic ; useful in diseases caused by disordered bile and 
blood (U. C. Dutt). 
765. Trachelospermum fragrans, Hook., h.f.b.i., 
hi. 667. 
* Vern. : — Dudhi (Kumaon). 
Habitat : — Temperate and subtropical Himalaya, from Ku-' 
maon to Bhotan, exclusive of Sikkim. Assam ; Mulcu hills ; 
Cachar. 
