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shorter than the leaves, with a greenish gland on either side of 
the apex. Peduncles as long as the petioles, usually 7-flowered, 
bracts lanceolate. Flowers white, fragrant. Sepals about fin 
1 >ng, ovate-lanceolate, acute, thick, silky-hairy outside, persis- 
tent. Corolla- txbe 2-3 in. long, limb about 2-2f in. in diam. 
Berry oblong, pointed, 1 celled. Seeds usually solitary. 
The flowers open at sunset and wither on the following 
morning. The so- called R. ornata of S. India is a separate 
species. A more correct name for this plant of N. India would 
be R. Roxburghii, Prain. (See Prain in Nov. Ind. viii, 89. 
(Duthie). 
Habitat. — India, from Assam to Belgaum and Mysore. Fre- 
quent in Bengal plain. 
Uses. — In the Concan, the juice is made with Borneo camphor 
and butter into an ointment for pityriasis. For piles, one tola, of 
the juice, with half a tolfi of Babul pods, and a little sugar, is 
given in a quarter seer of cow’s milk every morning (Pharma- 
cographia Indica, Vol. II., p. 541). 
832 . Argyreia speciosa, Sweet, h.f.b.i., iv. 185 . 
Syn. Lettsomia nervosa, Roxb. 164. 
Sans. : — Samudra palaka ; Vriddha-daruka. 
Vern. : — Samandar-k4-pat ; Samandar-phen (Hind.); Bich- 
taraka (Beng.); Kaf-darya (Pers.) ; Shamuddi rap-pachchai, 
(Tam.) ; Samudra shoka (Bomb.) ; Samudra-pHa (Tel) ; Saman- 
dar-ka-patta (Dec.); Samandar-sof ; Samandar-sokh (H.) ; Quguli 
(B.); Kedok arak (Santal) ; Shamuddirap-pachchai (Tam.); 
Chandra-poda, kokkita, pdla-samudra (Tel ) ; Samudra-pach-cha, 
samudra-zogam, samudra-pala (Mai.). 
Habitat: — India, from Assam to Belgaum' and Mysore; 
frequent in Bengal plains. 
A shrub, with a stem climbing, not twining, rather stout, 
cylindric, fine silky pubescent, with white adpressed hairs. 
Branchlets stout, white tomentose. Leaves lf-3in., broadly 
ovate or reniform, cordate at base, very shortly acuminate, 
apiculate, glabrous above, more or less densely white, silky 
