880 
INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 
Stems long, slender, twining, hairy or nearly glabrous, often 
tinged with purple. Leaves l-2|in., ovate-cordate, acute, entire, 
nearly glabrous. Petiole l-3in., peduncles long, laxly 3-fld, 
1- 3in., often 1-flowered, rarely with 3-flowers. Bracts fin., 
lanceolate, sub-persistent ; pedicels f-lfin. ; sepals ovate, sub- 
acute, nearly glabrous, fin., ultimately broader obtuse, reflexed. 
Corolla f-lin., ocbroleucous or white, with the plaits yellowish, 
always with a purple base ; tube narrow, mouth wide, glabrous. 
Anthers never twisted. Capsule f-fin., ovoid, subacute, glabrous, 
2- valved, 2-seeded, normally 4-seeded. Seeds densely softly 
brown, velvety. 
Uses : — The' leaves have a pleasant smell and mucilaginous 
taste ; when toasted, powdered and boiled with r/hi they are 
considered as a valuable application in aphthous affections 
(Ainslie.) 
843. 7. Sepiaria Koen. it.f.b.i., iv. 209 Roxb. 168. 
Habitat : — Throughout India 
A perennial herb, glabrous or .more or less hairy, Stems 
slender, twining. Leaves 1-3 in. long, ovate, acute, entire, base 
cordate, with a wide sinus and rounded lobes, petioles 1-2 in. 
long. Flowers many, in umbelliform long-peduncled cymes, 
peduncles 1-6 in. long; bracts small, caducous, pedicels clavate 
in fruit. Sepals about f in. long, ovate, glabrous or slightly 
hairy, margins membranous, 2 outer rather shorter than the 
inner. Corolla narrowly funnel-shaped, pink or white with a 
purplish centre, about If in. long, or more, limb suddenly 
widened at the mouth ; lobes acute, shortly apiculate. Fila- 
ments hairy at the base. Capsule f in. long, ovoid, glabrous. 
Seeds 4 or 2, clothed with grey silky hairs (Duthie). 
Uses : — It has a reputation as an antidote to arsenic, the 
juice which is strongly acid, is said by Rheede to be used “ ad 
purificationum corporis.” 
844. 7. aquatica, Forsk. h.f.b.i.,iv. 210; Roxb. 162. 
Sans. : — Kalambi. 
Vern . : — Kalmi-sak (B) ; Kalmi-sag, N4ri_(N. W. P.) ; 
