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INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 
beneath. Peduncles usually close below the leaves, short. 
Racemes densely stellately woolly and with needle-like hairs, not 
prickly. Flowers large, white. Calyx shortly funnel-shaped, 
shaggy, with long stellate hair, slightly enlarged in fruit ; seg- 
ments ovate-acute £in., not acuminate. Corolla white, large, 
l£in. diam., very hairy outside; lobes ovate-oblong, acute, 
f-lin. long. Ovary hirsute. Berry yellow, globose 1-lJin. diam.; 
densely clothed with needle-like hairs, £-£in. fulvous, spreading. 
Fruit pedicels £-lin. . Calyx-lobes in fruit unaltered, hardly £ 
the length of the berry ; base of the Calyx in fruit very densely 
clothed with long, yellow, bristly hair. Seeds £in. diam., nearly 
smooth. 
Use: — The berries are used medicinally by the natives, but 
are not considered of much value (Watt). 
858. £>'. indieum, Linn., h.f.b.i., iv. 234 ; Roxb. 
191. 
Sans. : — Vrihati. 
Vern , : — Barhanta (H.) ; By&kura (B.) ; M ulli, papparamulli 
(Tam.) ; Kuk-mSchi (Tel.) ; Cheru-chunta (Mai.) ; Ringani, dorli 
(Bomb.) ; Kandyari (Panj.). 
Habitat : — Very common throughout tropical India. 
An erect under shrub, l-6ft., much-branched, very prickly ; 
prickles compressed, stout, often recurved. Leaves ovate-sinuate 
or lobed, 3-6 by l-4in., subentire or pinnatifid, stellately woolly 
beneath, nerves prickly. Petiole lin. Peduncles short, often 
extra-axillary, pedicels £-£in., stellately woolly. Racemes many- 
fid. Flowers blue. Calyx lobes in flower £in., triangular, acute, 
very woolly, unarmed or with slender, straight spines. Corolla 
*-lin., broadly triangular, tomentose without. Ovary usually 
glabrous ; style stellately pubescent. Berry yellow, -jin. diam., 
globose, much exceeding the woolly, patent, triangular, oblong 
Calyx lobes ; prickles of the lobes often strengthened in fruit. 
Seeds £in. diam. and upwards, smooth or very nearly so. 
Parts used : — The root ; leaves. 
Uses : — “ The root constitutes an igredient of Dasamula f 
