N. 0. A0ANTHACEA5. 
955 
N. 0. ACANTHACEJE. 
912. Cardantherci uliginosa, Ham. h.f.b.i., iv. 
403. 
Syrt. : — -Ruellia uliginosa, Linn. /. Roxb. 475 ; Adenosma’ 
ulginosa, Nees. 
Habitat : — In dry-up rice-swamps ; S. Madras, frequent. 
Sikkim Terai. 
An annual herb, erect or decumbent, branching from 
the base. Stem pubescent upwards. Leaves 1 by Jin., glabrous, 
sub-pubescent, subsessile, oblong or subovate, entire or crenate. 
Spikes I-3in., scarcely interrupted at the base even in fruit. 
Flowers mostly in opposite axils. Bracts Jin., from elliptic 
to cordate, glabrous or puberulous, 4-ranked, imbricated 
in fruit, bracteoles Jin , ovate or elliptic. Sepals Jin., linear, 
pubescent. Corolla Jin., puberulous. Stamens 4, fertile. Anthers 
of the posterior stamens half as large as of the anterior. Capsule 
Jin., minutely pilose upwards. 
Use: — The juice of its leaves mixed with salt, is used on 
the Malabar Coast as a blood purifier.. (Balfour.) 
913. Hygrophila spinosa , J. Anders, h.f.b.i , 
iv. 408. 
Syn : — Ruellia longifolia, Hoxb, 475 ; Asteracantha longifolia, 
Nees. 
Sans. Ikshugandha ; Khkilaksha. 
Vern. : — T&l-makhana, gokshura (H.) ; Ivuliakhara, kante- 
kaliki (B.) ; Niramalli (Tam.); Nirguri veru (Tel.); Talima- 
khana, Kolasunda (Mar.) ; Ekharo, gokhru (Guz.) ; Kalavan 
kabija (Kan.). 
Habitat : — Abundant throughout India in ditches ; from the 
Himalaya to Ceylon. Very common in the Konkan. 
An annual marshy herb, with an ascending rhizome. Steins 
numerous, stout, erect, hispid, 2-5ft. , usually fascicled and undi- 
vided or unbranched, somewhat compressed, thickened at nodes 
with long hair below each node. Leaves sessile, 6 at a node, 
- outer 4-5 in., 4 inner about ljin. each having a nearly straight 
