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INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 
in. Seeds f in. long, ovate, flat, minutely crenate at the lower 
end. (Duthie). 
Use. : — The flowers are officinal in the Punjab (Stewart). 
In Bombay, the dry roots given in decoction are considered 
astringent (S. Arjun) 
776 . Dcemia extensa, Br. hf.b.i., iv. 20 . 
Syn. : — Asclepias echinata, Roxh. 256. 
Sans ; — Phala Kantaka, in allusion to its ecbinate follicles. 
Vern. Utran, jutuk, sagovanee (H.); Trottoo, seealee, kureal 
fPunj.); Kharyal (Sind.) ; Chhdgul-bati (B ) ; Velipparutti, utta- 
mani (Tam ) ; Jittupaku, gurti-chettu(Teb) ; Halakoratige, Kun- 
tiga ; Juttiwe, Talavdranaballi. (Kan.); Utarni (Bomb ); Nagala 
dudheli (Ouz); Utarani ; Utarandi (Mar). 
Habitat : — Throughout India, from the Salt Range and the 
N.-W. Himalaya to Lower Bengal and Ceylon. 
A perennial foetid herb. Stems twining, more or less hispid, 
with short spreading hair and minute prickles. Leaves 2-4in., 
and nearly as broad, deeply cordate at base, with rounded lobes, 
acute, slightly hairy on both sides, ciliate, thin. Flowers pale : 
green, in long slender, pubescent pedicels. Cymes at first corym- 
bose, afterwards racemose, peduncles coming oS from between 
the bases of petioles, mudi longer than leaves. Bracts linear, 
acute. Sepals lanceolate, acute, slightly ciliate. Corolla nearly 
fin. diam., lobes acute, hairy above, ciliate, concave, spreading. 
Follicles 2-2|in., reflexed, long-beaked ; spines long, soft 
(Trimen). Seeds fin. long, broadly ovate, pubescent, margin 
quite entire (J. D. Hooker). 
Uses : — In Southern India, a decoction of the leaves is given 
to children as an anthelmintic ; and their juice in asthma, and, 
combined with lime, in rheumatism (Ainslie). 
In Western India, the'plant has a general reputation as an 
expectorant and emetic. In Goa, the juice of the leaves is 
applied to rheumatic swellings (Dymock). 
Dr. Oswald states that it is used as an expectorant in the 
