N. O AOANTHACE.E. 
957 
A small diffuse undershrub. Stems 6-18 in. long, prostrate, 
or climbing, amongst bushes, much branched, internodes long, 
the nodes more or less hairy and often tinged with purple. 
Leaves f-3 in. long, ovate or elliptic., acute at both ends, entire, 
glabrous or slightly hairy, petioles, H in. long. Flowers 
subsessile, solitary or few together ; bracteoles similar to the 
leaves but smaller. Calyx | in. long, divided to below the 
middle ; segments linear-subulate, acute, hairy. Corolla pale 
greyish-purple, 1£ in. long, caducous, pubescent outside ; tube 
narrowly cylindric below, funnel-shaped above ; lobes subequal, 
obovate-oblong, rounded. Capsule! in. long, clavate, pointed, 
pubescent. Seeds 16-20, subglabrous but with a dense fringe 
of hygroscopic hairs on the margin. (DmthieV 
Uses : — The juice of the leaves, boiled with a little salt, is 
supposed on the Malabar Coast to correct a depraved state of 
the humors (Rheede). They are sometimes given with pundum 
or liquid copal as a remedy for gonorrhoea (Ainslie.) 
915. R. sujfruticosa, Roxb. h.f.b.i., iv. 413 
Roxb 476. 
Vern. : — Chanlia (Santal.). 
Habitat : — Dinajpur ; (Bengali ; throughout Chota Nagpore. 
Upper Gangetic Plain, and Moradabad. 
An erect pubescent undershrub, 1-2 ft. high. Roots stout, 
often with fusiform swellings. Stems herbaceous, annually 
produced from a short creeping woody rhizome. Leaves petioled 
lanceolate elliptic or oblanceolate, the lower ones usually smaller 
and often suborbicular, obtuse or subacute, entire, villous with 
white hairs on both surfaces especially on the nerves and veins 
beneath, margins ciliate. Flowers solitary, terminal, subsessile ; 
bracteoles resembling the leaves but smaller and narrower, fin. 
long, stalked. Roxburgh states that the flowers open at sunset 
and drop off on the following morning. Calyx-segments 4- in. 
long, linear, puberulous or nearly glabrous. Corolla white, 
lj-2 in. long, tube slender, limb subregular. Capsule \\ in. 
long, oblong, glabrous, often tinged with purple Seeds few. 
(Duthieh 
