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INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 
much cnneate at base ; blade l-2in., narrowed into a petiole, 
lin. long. Flowers white or bine, in lax hairy cymes. Corolla- 
tube twice the length of Calyx ; lobes as long as tube. 
Use : — A decoction of the fresh root is used in venereal 
diseases (Dymock). 
816. E. buxi folia, Roxb. ii.f.b.i , iv. 144 ; Roxb. 
201 . 
Vem. Cooruvingie, voyr (Tam.); Bapana-bdri (Tel.); 
Paleke-jurr (Dec.) ; Pal6 (H.) ; Pala (M.). 
Habitat: — Deccan Peninsula, in dry jungles. 
A shrub, with stiff branches. Leaves J-lin., fasciculate on 
arrested branchlets, oblaneeolate, apex, with a few obtuse teeth, 
pale beneath, upper side rough, with short stiff hairs standing 
generally on white disks (cystolith-cells), entire or often 3-lobed 
at apex, obtuse, attenuated base, subsessile. Peduncles O-f in, 
hairy, axillary, l-(or few)-flowered. Flowers, says Brandis, 
“solitary or a few together on slender hair peduncles.” Calyx 
hairy; lobes -jin., lanceolate, linear, spatlmlate, longer than 
tube. Corolla l-jin. across, white, campanulate ; lobes short, 
ovate. Filaments very short. Style 2-fid to near the base, or 
two distinct styles. Drupe globose, £ £in. diam., yellow or 
scarlet when ripe. Stone one, 4-celIed (Brandis). 
Use : — The root is employed in Southern Tndia hy the 
Hindoo doctors as an alterative, and by the Mahomedan as an 
antidote to vegetable poison (Ainslie). 
Dr. A. E. Ross reports having employed it in the form of 
decoction, iri- proportion of two ounces of the root to a pint of 
water, and that this in' doses of two ounces appeared to be 
decidedly beneficial in secondary and constitutional syphilitic 
affections (Ph. Ind.). ‘ 
817. Coldenia procumbens, Linn., h.f.b.i., iv. 
144 ; Roxb. 150. 
San«. ; — Trjpakshi. 
Vern. : — Tirpungkhi, triphunkhi, tripungki (H.) ; Bursha 
(Sind.) ; Tripakshi (Bomb.) ; Seru-padi, siru-padi (Tam.) ; Hamsa- 
padu, hama-padi (Teh). 
