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INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANtS. 
The leaves boiled in a little castor oil, said' to relieve pain 
of scorpion bite or bee-stings, also the bite of mad-dogs. For 
cleansing and healing ulcers also of service (Murray, 171). 
819 . H. undulatum, Valxl. h.f.b.i., iv. 150 . 
Fern. : — Pipat-buti ; Jate misak tPb.). 
Habitat: — Frequent in the Punjab, Scinde aud Upper 
Gangetic Plain. 
Sub-erect, 6-24in., branched, harsh, scabrous, Leaves J-IJin., 
often rugose, obscurely petioled, lanceolate, bristly, margins 
crenulate. Spikes rigid, branches short. Flowers sessile, 
ebracteate. Sepals T gin , oblong, scabrous, rigid, persistent, after 
the nutlets have fallen. Corolla-tube Jin., tubular, scabrous 
without ; lobes very small, ovate. Nutlets 4, T Vin., verrucose, 
hispid or bristly. 
Use : — Given after snake-bite, while tobacco-oil is locally 
applied to the bite itself (Stewart). 
820 . H. strigosum; Willd, h.f.b.i., iv. 151 . 
Habitat : — Throughout India. 
Herbs usually procunbent, intricately branched. Leaves 
by -join., small, linear- lanceolate. Spikes mostly elongate. Upper 
flowers, sessile, not conspicuously bracteate ; lower flowers of 
the spike often pedicelled, with larger bracts. Sepals | 2 in. ovate- 
lanceolate. Corolla tubular, throat not hairy. Stamens 5, on the 
Corolla-tube included, filaments very short. Stigma ovate, 
linear. Fruit tViV 11 ) long and broad ; ovoid, not or obscurely 
4-lobed, with minute grey hairs, depressed conical at apex. 
821 . H. brevifolium, Wall., h.f.b.i., iv. 151 . 
(Reduced to a Var. of H. striqosum in Hooker's FI. 
Br. Ind.) 
Vern. :— Safed-bhangra, Chiti phul (H.); Kharai, Tindu, 
Gorakh pimo (Pb.). 
Habitat : — Throughout India, even more abundant tha*i H. 
strigorum type. 
Differs from H. strigosum by its shorter leaves. Leaves i by 
iJjiu., narrowly lanceolate. 
