958 
INDIAN MEDIOINAI. PLANTS. 
Use : — The root is used medicinally by the Santais in 
gonorrhoea, syphilis and renal affections generally (Campbell). 
It is also used by them Santais for producing fermentation 
in the grain from which they manufacture their beer. 
916. Dcedalacanthus roseus. T. A riders, h.f.b.i., 
iv. 419. 
Vern. : — Dasamuli (Mar.) 
Habitat : — W. and S. Deccan Peninsula, from the Bombay 
Ghats to Mangalore. 
A perennial, glabrous herb. Stems 2-6ft. Leaves 5 by 2in., 
elliptic, acuminate at both ends, glabrous, lineolate. Spikes 
linear, subinterrupted, often 6in Peduncles 0-2in., axillary 
and terminal. Bracts all but the lowest imbricated, 1-fin., 
shortly rugose by raised inarching green nerves ; margins 
entire, glabrous, ciliate or very hairy. Corolla 1-lfin. rose 
subglabrous. Seeds fin. diam., much compressed. Roots usually 
ten in number, tuberous, spindle-shaped, as thick as a quill, 
several inches in length and covered by a dark brown bark. 
Uses : — The root boiled in milk is a popular remedy for 
leucorrhoea ; dose one drachm. In the Southern Concan, it is 
given to pregnant cattle to promote the growth of the foetus 
(Dymock). 
917. Strobilanthe s callusus, Nees. h.f.b.i., iv. 
451. 
Vern. : — Karvi (Bomb.). 
Habitat-.— S. Deccan Peninsula; common in the Ghats; 
Central India. 
A shrub, 6 ft.; branches glabrate, often warted or scabrous- 
tubercled. Leaves 7 by 3 in., sometimes much larger, crenate, 
conspicuously lineolate above; nerves 8-16 pair ; petiole 2 in. 
Spikes 1-4 in., often densely or laxly cymose ; bracts J-l in., 
orbicular dr elliptic Calyx \ in., in fruit often exceeding f in., 
lobed nearly to the base, segments oblong, obtuse, softly hairy. 
Corolla If in., subsymmetric glabrous without, very hairy within, 
deep-blue (Dalzell) : cylindric base as long as the ventricose 
