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INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 
An erect, nearly glabrous, herb. Stems 2-4ft., corymbose 
upwards. Leaves 4-6 by 3in., irregular, ovate-oblong, sinnate, 
base cuneate or cordate on the same branch. Petiole l-4in., 
corymb 2-8in. diam., compound, lax, viscid, pubescent. Flowers 
all pedicelled ; pedicels f-lfin. Calyx in flower fin., lobes fin. 
lanceolate ; in fruit If by -jin., striate. Corolla 1J by £in., 
tubular, funnel-shaped in the majority of wild examples, some- 
times shorter (C. B. Clarke), in the cultivated examples wider, 
subcampanulate. Stamens and styles equalling the Corolla, 
or jin. longer, distinctly exserted in all wild examples. Capsule 
fin. diam. Seeds yjin. diam., scorbiculate-reticulate. 
Uses ■ — “ In the hills the leaves are applied to boils, and are 
also said to be poisonous, the mouth swelling from their touch, 
and the head and throat being affected when they are eaten. 
A man was poisonously affected by eating the plant gathered 
in the Lahoul habitat, and the Negi of Lalioul, when at Leh in 
1867, suffered from its narcotic effects for two or three days, 
some of its leaves having been gathered by mistake with his 
sag. At the same time, they can hardly be very poisonous to 
all animals, for in Lahoul they are browsed by cattle. In a 
recent communication to the Agri-Horticultural Society of India, 
Dr. Christison of Edinburgh states that this has the same pro- 
perty of dilating the pupils as Belladonna” (Stewart). 
876 . Hyoscyamus niger, Linn, h.f.b.i., iv. 244 . 
Vern. : — Bazrul ; Khorasani ajowan (B. and H.) ; Kurashaui 
Yomam (Tam.) ; Kurasani-vamam (Tel.). 
• Habitat : — Temperate Western Himalaya, from Kashmir to 
Garwhal. 
An erect, coarse herb, pubescent and more or less hairy. 
Leaves cauline, sessile, ovate or oblong, sinnate or lobed 
5 by 2in. Flowers subsessile. Lower pedicels in fruit scarcely 
fin. Calyx in flower fin., softly hairy, teeth mucronate, short, 
triangular, somewhat rigid, the fruit 1 by fin., subcontracted in 
the middle. Corolla purple in the base, lin., lurid green, 
