N. 0. S0I.ANACE/E. 
89 ?. 
Chichora (C. P.) ; Kaln m6wa, t.iari, ola, kharwine (Pb.) ; 
Kosagadi manu (Tel.).* 
Rakitat : — Common throughout India, in the Tropical and 
Sub-tropical Zone. 
Sub-Himalayan tract and outer hills from the Jumna eastward 
Chutia-Nagpur. Western Peninsula, Burma hills and Ceylon 
moist regions. 
A shrub or small tree, unarmed, 20ft. high ; Trimen says 
6-10 ft. Bark grey, smooth. Wood soft, light-yellow (Gamble" 1 . 
The whole plant is covered with a dense yellowish-grey tomen- 
tnm of scurfy stellate-hairs. Leaves large, 5-9in., lanceolate oval- 
elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate, rounded or acute at base, acuminate, 
subacute, tomentum velvety above, very woolly beneath ; petiole 
•f-lin., stout. Flowers white or pale-blue, fin. across, in compact, 
dichotomous corymbs. Peduncles 2-4in., stout erect. Calyx 
cup-shaped, very woolly, segments short, broadly triangular, 
acute. Corolla wholly without, fin. diam. ; lobes deep, oval- 
oblong, subacute. Berry J-in. diam., hairy at first, with small 
scattered stellate hairs, yellow. Calyx enlarged in fruit ; lobes 
shorter than berry. Seeds minutely dotted. 
JV. B.— Wight's figure of this plant (Ie. T. 1398) is not good, says Trimop, 
-Fol. Ill, p. 232 of FI. Ceylon, Lond 1895. 
Use : — It is used medicinally by the natives of India, but 
its properties are unimportant (Watt.). 
857. S. ferox, Linn, it.f.b.i. iv., 233. 
Syn. : — S. hirsutum, Roxb. 192. 
Vern. : — Ram begoori (B.). 
Habitat : — Eastern and Southern India, frequent in the 
tropical zone ; from Assam to Ceylon and to Tenasserim. 
A large herbaceous shrub. Stem stout, very densely covered 
with long, coarse, stalked, stellate hairs, and armed with numer- 
ous straight, slender, fat, shining prickles. The prickles' on the 
leaves abundant ; the longest Jin. Leaves 6-12in., with broad 
triangular lin.-deep lobes, usually 2 at a ‘node and unequal, 
stellately fulvous-woolly beneath, prickly, especially on the nerves 
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