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INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 
N. 0.. PEDALlNEiE. 
909. Martynia diandra, Glox. h.f.b.i., iv. 
386. 
Vern : — Bichchliu (H\ Naka-tali (Tam). 
English : — Tiger claw or Devil’s claw. 
Habitat : —An American weed, it is now common in the 
Gangetic plain and elsewhere in India on road sides and in 
waste places, flowering during the rainy season. 
A tall coarse herb. Leaves large, opposite, cordate, glutinous. 
Flowers diandrous, rose-colored and handsome like those of 
Ses amum indicum, DeC. Fruit large, woody, beaked by two 
curved spines, having somewhat the appearance of a beetle. 
Uses : — The fruit is rubbed down with water and applied 
to the part stung by scorpion. 
910. Pedalium Murex, Linn., h.f.b.i., iv. 386, 
Roxb. 496. 
Vern.-. — Farid-buti, bara gokhru (Hind.); Khasake-kabir 
(Arab.); Khasake-kalan (Pers.) ; Bara-ghokru (Dec.); Peru- 
nerunji (Tam.); Enuga-palleru-mullu. pedda-palleru (Tel.); - 
Bara-ghokru (Beng.) ; Motto-ghokru (Guz.) ; Hatti-cliaralte, 
mothe gokharu (Mar.); Anne-galu-gida (Kan.y. , 
Habitat Dekkan and Konkan. Found by me in Thana 
district at Chinchni (Tarapur) and at Ghat Kopar hill spur 
(K. R. K.) 
An annual herb, growing in sandy places near the sea. 
Stems decumbent, much branched, thick, slightly rough with 
scaly glands or hairs. Leaves opposite, l-lgin., broadly oval- 
oblong, acute at base, truncate or obtuse, very coarsely crenate- 
serrate or lobed, glabrous above, covered with minute scaly 
glands beneath, rather fleshy, pale glaucous green. Petiole 
l-^in. Flowers sulphur yellow, on very short curved peduncles, 
Calyx-tube very short and wide ; segments linear, spreading. 
Corolla limb lin. diam.; lobes broad ; throat hairy within ; 
filaments glandular— hairy at base. Fruit |-|in., narrowed below 
