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INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 
with black pepper, in rheumatism. The leaves are also applied 
locally, to relieve pain (B. D. Basu). A decoction of the plaut 
is used in cases of gonorrhoea. 
“ The bud and flower, with salt (solution) good for watery 
eyes (J. J. Wood’s Plants of Chutia Nagpur, p. 122). 
The fruit of this plaut were found on analysis to have a similar composition 
to those of the S. indicum, except that in this case the fruits were examined 
in a fresh condition, and the solanine reactions Of tjie alkaloid and the 
almost entire absence of ammonia were noticed. The dried leaves left 2074 
per cent, of ash when burnt, and contained traces of an alkaloid, and an 
astringent organic acid giving a green precipitate with ferric salts. (Pharrna- 
uographia lndica II, 559.) 
861. S. trilobatum, Linn, h.f.b.i., iv. 236; Roxb. 
192. 
Sans. : — Alarka. 
Vern . : — Toodavullay (Tam.) ; Mooud-la-moosteh ; Oochinta 
kura (Tel.) : Motariugaui mala ( M. ) ; Nablii-ankuri (Uriya). 
Habitat : — W. Deccan Peninsula ; from the Concan south- 
wards and frequent, every common On waste ground, in dry 
regions. 
A small under-shrub, subscandent by its numerous hooked 
prickles. Stems (3-12ft., slender, with long divaricate branches, 
with a few stellate hairs on the young shoots, otherwise nearly 
glabrous, provided with many flattened, hooked, decurved, very 
sharp prickles. Leaves J-l^in., irregularly 3-5-lobed, rotund, 
ovate or ovate elliptic in outline, obtuse, glabrous, often with 
2 or 3 small curved prickles in the midrib ; base not cordate. 
Petiole as long as the leaf or half as long, prickly. Peduncles 
short, mostly extra-axillary short, 1-3-fid, pedicels g-IJin., with 
very strong, short, recurved prickles. Flowers large, on long 
divaricate or reflexed glabrous pedicels, says Trimen, rich violet- 
purple. Cymes racemose, short, 3-9-flowered, nearly sessile, 
Calyx small, slightly stellate, hairy, segments lanceolate acute, 
hardly elongate in fruit. Corolla l£-l£in. diam., stellate pube- 
scent without, lobes very deep, oblong oval, obtuse, usually 
reflexed. Berry Jin., smooth, scarlet, globose, much exceeding 
the Calyx-lobes. Seeds J-in., smooth, or very nearly so. Berries 
edible. 
