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INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 
segments minute, ovate, acute, slightly ciliate. Corolla fin. 
long (J. D. Hooker), Jin. diam. (Trimen) ; lobes twice as long 
■ as the tube, narrow, falcate, obtuse, throat villous, scattered, white 
hair on upper surface. Stamens, with very short broad filaments. 
Stigmas sessile, pointed. Follicles 5-6in., divaricate, ovate- 
oblong, cylindrical, blunt, glabrous, hard and woody, black 
at times, narrowed from a base of fin. diam. to the obtuse point, 
terete. Seeds few, 8-12, Ifin. long, flat ; beak long, about 
J the seeds length, slender, coma white, 2in. long. The stems 
afford a very strong fibre. 
Use : — The root possesses similar properties to Ipecacuanha 
(S. Arjun). 
767. Ichnocarpus frutescens, Br. h. f.b.l, hi. 
669. 
Sans. : — Sdrivd. 
Vern.: — : Syamlata (B.); Kali dudhi, belkamu (Sabaranpur), 
bamar (Gorakhpur); Nalatiga (Tel.); Bhori (C. B.)- Krishna 
Sarwa, Kantebhouri (Mar); Gorwi balli (kan). 
Habitat : — Western Himalaya ; Sirmore to Nepal ; Upper 
Gangetic plain, from Dehli to Bengal, Assam, Sylhet, Chitta- 
gong, and the Deccan Peninsula. 
An extensively climbing, evergreen shrub ; much-branched. 
Branchlets long, slender, white like finely fulvous-tomentose. 
Leaves lJ-2Jin., elliptic oblong-lanceolate, or ovate-oval, rounded 
at base, acute, 2-3 by f-lfin.; dark green glabrous and shining 
above, pale and more or less pubescent beneath, with slender reti- 
culations between the main lateral nerves. Petiole J-fin. Cymes 
l-3in., axillary and in terminal panicles, rusty pubescent ; branches 
short, trichotomously divided, or 3-flowered. Pedicels longer 
or shorter than the Corolla. Flowers greenish-white, more or 
less scented (Brandis), yellow (Trimen). Calyx-lobes ovate, obtuse, 
or subacute, eglandular, hairy. Corolla about Jin., diam., pur- 
plish (J. D. Hooker), twice as long as the Calyx ; £in. long, says 
Brandis ; lobes falcate, acuminate, woolly on the upper side. 
Disk of 5 linear lobes. Follicles spreading, 2-5in. long. Seeds 
not rostrate, with a tuft of hairs at the upper end ; Jin. long, 
coma as long, scanty, white. Pericarp thinly coriaceous. 
