N. (>. ACANTHACE/E. 
950 
portion. Filaments hairy downwards. Pistil glabrous. Capsule 
£ by \ in. Seeds more than \ in. long, thin, obovate acute, 
densely shaggy with white adpressed inelastic hairs, except on 
the large oblong areoles. (C. B. Clarke). 
The flower spikes resemble hops in shape and size, and arc 
covered with a visid resinous exudation called Mel having a 
musky and resinous odour (Dymock). 
Uses : — The plant lias a strong aromatic odor and is much 
used in domestic medicine by the conn try -people of the regions 
where it occurs The bark, with an equal proportion of that of 
Calophyllum inophyllum, is applied as a fomentation in tenes- 
mus. The juice of the bark, with an equal quantity of that of 
Eclipta alba, boiled down to one-half and mixed with old 
Sesamum oil, a few pepper corns and ginger, io heated and 
used as an external application in parotitis, and equal quanti- 
ties of the juice of the flowers and of those of Randia dume- 
torum are smeared over bruises (Dymock). 
Another species, named, Strobilanthes ciliatus, Nees. h.f.b.i., 
iv. 439. is also used for the same purposes. 
918 . S. aurieulatus, Nees. h.f.b.i., iv. 453 . 
Vern . : — Gada-kalha ; Harnapakor (Santali). 
Habitat: — Behar, Central India, from Jubbul pore to Chutia 
Nagpur. 
An underwood or small shrub, 2-6ft. Branches many, devari- 
cate, often zigzag, quadrangular, glabrous, tips more or less 
hairy. Leaves variable, very often unequal, in the same pair, 
minutely hairy beneath. Spikes linear oblong, closely velvety, 
mostly terminal, solitary, 34 by |in , quasipeduncled. 
Bracts soft, membranous, broader than long, £-£in., very 
obtuse, apex often recurved in fruit, persistent, with aromatic 
glandular hair. Calyx divided nearly to the base, velvety, 
4-iin., unequal, linear obtuse. Corolla bluish-purple, lin., 
curved, very slightly hairy, narrow, cylindric base very much 
shorter than the ventric part, limb slightly 2-lipped. Stamens 
and pistil very nearly glabrous. Capsule 4in., glabrous, 4-seeded. 
Seeds scarcely j^in., thin, orbicular, elastically white — hairy; 
areoles very small. 
