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INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 
» An annual herb, 4-10in. high, brittle, slender, glandularly 
villous or glabrate. Stem sometimes simple ; with all the 
flowers solitary in the axils of large leaves, at others branched, 
the branches running out into leafy racemes. Leaves 1-1J 
(rarely 2^) in. long, membranous, obtuse, ovate, crenate-serrate, 
petiole L-fin. Flowers shortly pedicelled unilateral, all axillary 
and solitary or 2-nate, or in lax, leafy, slender spikes or 
racemes. Calyx shorter than the ovate leafy bracts, |in. ( 
lobes recurved. Corolla twice as long as the Calyx, sparsely 
hairy, yellow ; ovary pubescent. Capsule hairy above the 
middle. 
Use : — The juice is given in chronic bronchitis, and mixed 
with that of the coriander, is applied to skin eruptions. The 
plant has a faint aromatic odor, and a slightly bitter taste 
(Dymock). 
886 . Stemodia viscosa, Roxb. h.f.b.i., iv. 265 ; 
Roxb. 489 . 
Vern. : — Nukachuni (B.) ; Boda-sarum, gunta kaminam 
(Tel.). 
Habitat : — From Central India and the Sone river through 
out the Deccan. 
An erect annual herb, viscidly pubescent, branched . from 
the base, 6-18in. high, aromatic Stem angular. Leaves 5-2in. 
rarely ovate, sessile, oblong, base cordate serrulate, sometimes 
shortend, sometimes very small throughout the plant. Flowers 
pedicelled, axillary, and in terminal racemes, very numerous, 
nearly |in. long, 2-bracteate. Bracts shorter than the pedicels ; 
pedicels equalling or exceeding the Calyx. Corolla twice as long 
as the Calyx. Sepals lanceolate, acute, half as long as the violet 
Corolla. Anther-cells all polleniferous. Capsule £-in£. long, 
equalling the Calyx, acuminate. Seeds ellipsoid, terete, black, 
or, brown, most minute. 
Use The dried plant, which is slightly fragrant and 
mucilaginous, is used by the natives of Bengal in infusion as 
a demulcent (Irvine). 
