M. O, BOAROINE^. 
863 
Habitat A weed common throughout tropical India. 
A procumbent, scabrous, hairy annual herb, usually quite 
flat. Leaves alternate, crisped, elliptic-obovate, coarsely serrate 
or subpinnatifid, 1-1 Jin. Flowers axillary, sessile or nearly so, 
Jin., the upper sometimes in a leafy one-sided spike, yellow. 
Sepals 4 narrow, very hairy Segments x 0 in. long, ovate acute, 
ciliate. Corolla-tube short, lobes 4 imbricated in the bud, 
patent. Stamens 4 on the Corolla-tube ; anthers ovate. Ovary 
2-celled, with 2 ovules; style terminal, bifid. Drupe (nearly dry) 
of 4, subconnate, 1-seeded pyrenes. Pyrene |in. Testa of the 
seed thin. Seeds albuminous ; cotyledons flat. 
Uses: — As a medicine,' equal parts of the dry plant and 
fenugreek seeds rubbed to a fine powder, and applied warm to 
boils, quickly briugs them to suppuration ( Ainslie'. 
The fresh leaves ground up are applied to rheumatic swel- 
lings (Murray). 
818. II eliotr opium Eichivaldi, Steud. H.F.B.I., 
iv. 149. 
Syn.: — H. europeum, Benth. 
Vern. : — Nil Kattei, bithua, atwin, popat buti, gidar tarndku 
(Ph. and II.); Chirgas (Kash.) 
Habitat: — Punjab and Scinde ; in the plains frequent. Kash- 
mir ; Srinuggar Merwara. 
An erect herb, with a woody stem. Branches from the base 
6-12in., softly closely hairy. Leaves J-IJin. obtuse, ovate, lower 
long-petioled, clothed on both sides with bulbous-based hairs, 
nerves not prominent on the upper surface ; petiole J-lin. 
Flowers 2-ranked. Spikes dense, ebracteate, 2in. Calyx deci- 
duous with the fruit, 5-parotite. Sepals in., ovate-lanceolate, 
hairy Corolla-tube £in., narrow, cylindric, hairy without ; 
segments round, crenulate. Style very short. Stigma with a 
broad based conical appendage bifid at the apex, st.igmatic ring 
not conspicuous. Nutlets ijin, glabrous, minutely verrucose. 
Part used The leaf. 
Uses: — The plant is emetic, and also given after snake-bite, 
and, alongjwith tobacco-oil, is applied locally to the bite itself 
(Stewart). 
