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887 . Limnophila gratissima, Blume. h.f.b.i., iv 
268 , 
Fern. — (To this as well as the next species are applied the 
following namesin common.): — 
Kuttra (H.) ; Karpur (B.); Ambuli (Mar.) ; Manga-nari (Mai). 
Habitat. — Watery places. Cachar, Pegu, Mallacca, The Dec- 
can Peninsula, from the Concan southwards. 
Glabrous herbs growing in water or marshy places. Stems, 
stout, erect, simple, l-2ft., rarely branched above. Leaves 
l5-2|in., opposite and 3-nately‘ whorled, J amplicicaul, linear- 
oblong, subacute, serrulate nerves few and faint. Racemes rarely 
solitary, sometimes lft. long and paniculately branched, with 
flowers whorled, at others few-fid, or flower solitary and axillary. 
Pedicels 1-lin., glandular ; bracteoles minute. Calyx gin. 
long, glandular, fruiting, striate, hemispheric, lobes lanceolate, 
acuminate, Corolla |in. long. Capsule oblong, acute- 
Use : — It is used medicinally as a cooling medicine in fever, 
and given to women who are nursing, when the milk is sour. 
(Pharmacographia Indica, Vol., III., p. 7). 
888 . L. gratioloides, Br. h.f.b.i., iv 271 . 
In the FI. Br. lad. are described two varieties, 1. inter- 
media and 2 elovgata. 
Sanskrit : — Ambuja, “water born,” and Amra-Gandhaka; 
having an odour of mangoes. 
Vern : — The same as of the above species. 
Habitat. — Throughout India, in swamps, rice-fields. 
“ In its most common form,” says Sir J. D. Hooker, “ a simple 
or branched, plant, 4-8 in. high, smelling of turpentine, with 
whorled pinnatifid leaves, in. long, which in wetter places 
appear to acquire a few emersed opposite entire leaves at the top 
of the stem and numerous capillaceo-multifid ones at its base. 
The stems are stout and slender.” Flowers axillary, solitary, 
pedicelled, rarely subracemose. Calyx 1-J-in. long, rarely larger, 
hemispheric in fruit, lobes ovate acuminate, not striate, Corolla 
iin. 
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