N. 0. B0ARGINEJC. 
867 
Uses : — Held in repute in snakebites; also considered diuretic. 
A cold infusion of the leaves is considered depurative. In 
the Deccan, the plant is used as an emollient poultice (Watt). 
In Chutia Nagpur, the root pounded and made into a paste, 
is applied to reduce swellings, particularly of the joints (Revd. 
, A. Campbell). 
824 . T. africanum, Br. h.f.b.i., iv. 154 . 
Vern, : — Paburpanee (Sind.) 
Habitat : — Punjab and Scinde. 
Stem and leaves as of T. indicum, but more harshly hispid, 
bristly, with hairs springing from the tubercles. Leaves ovate- 
oblong, lower long-petioled. Racemes mostly lateral, often 
bipartite and subebracteate. Calyx-lobes Jin. > > n fruit cordate 
at the base, f-fin. Corolla-tube Jin., lobes Jin., ovate, acute. 
Staminal cone laxly hairy at the back. Nutlets -Jin., margin 
prominent, glochidiate. 
Uses : — Leaves are used as diuretic (Murray). 
825 . T. zeylanicum, Br. h.f.b.i., iv. 154 . 
Vern. : — Hetenuria (H.) ; Tirup-sing (Mandariy), 
Habitat : — Bundelkhand. From Chota Nagpur and Bombay 
to S. India and Ceylon. 
An erect annual, 1-2 ft. high. Stems stout, densely pilose, 
often tinged with purple. Leaves sessile or shortly petioled, 2-4 
in. long, lanceolate or oblong, obtuse or acute, upper surface 
covered with short stiff, bulbous based hairs, finely pubescent 
beneath. Flowers pale-blue, usually in terminal bracteate pani- 
cles, or with a few solitary ones in the upper axils ; pedicels 
slender pubescent nodding ; bracts leaf-like. Calyx softly 
pubescent, rounded at the base ; lobes J in. long ; lanceolate, 
acute, hairy within, midrib prominent. Corolla- tube J in. long ; 
lobes obovate, rounded, plicate, with a spirally twisted accumi- 
nateapex. Nullets grey when ripe, otherwise resembling those 
of T. indicum. (Duthie). 
Use : — Leaves used as an emollient poultice (Watt). 
826 . Macrotomia Benthami. Dc., h.f.b.i., iv. 177 . 
Vern . : — Gaozaban (Pb.). 
