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Uses : — Both H. strigosum and H. brevifolium are laxative 
and diuretic, their juice is used as an application to sore-eyes, 
gum-boils and sores generally, to promote suppuration, and as 
a cure for the sting of nettles and insects 
822. H. indicum, Linn., h.f.b.i., iv. L52 ; 
Roxb. 152. 
Sans. : — HatisunadA, srihastiui, bhurundi. 
Vern : - Hatta-jurie, hatta-sdra, siriari (H.) ; Hatisura (Uriya 
and B.); Cbappu-tattu (C. P.); Bhurundi (Mar.); Hdthi-Sun- 
dh&na (Guz) Tet-Kodduki (Tam). Telu-munnie, Nagadanti (Tel); 
Tel-Kotukka, Teliyanui (Mai). 
Habitat : — Throughout India ; very common in the moister 
parts. 
A coarse, diffuse, hairy annual, |-2 ft. high. Stem stout and 
somewhat succulent but woody at the base ; branches ascending, 
clothed with stiff spreading hairs. Leaves alternate or sub- 
opposite, petioled, 1-4 in. long, ovate or ovate-oblong, obtuse or 
subacute, sparsely hairy above, minutely pilose beneath, margins 
undulate or subserrate, base rounded or cordate or decurrent 
into the petiole, nerves prominent beneath. Spikes 2-6 in. long, 
usually extra-axillary, simple or forked, ebracteate hispid. 
Flowers pale-violet, sessile, 2-ranked. Calyx 5-partite, I 1 0 in. 
long, sparsely bristly outside ; segments unequal, narrowly 
lanceolate, acute. Corolla funnel-shaped, J in. long, hairy out- 
side, tube slender, cylindric, slightly dilated at the base ; lobes 
very small, rounded, reflexed, Stigma shorter than the style, 
with an annular frill at the base ; apex short, obtuse. Fruit J 
in. long, deeply 2-lobed, each lobe bluntly 4-ribbed, containing 
2 angular beaked 1-Seed seeded pyrenes, each with an empty 
cavity on the inner side. White, subquadrate. (Duthie). 
Uses The leaves of this widely-distributed plant are held 
in esteem in various parts of the world as an external applica- 
tion to ulcers, wounds and local inflammations. Their action is 
probably only that of an emollient. Diuretic properties are 
also assigned to the plant (Ph. Ind.). 
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