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made by boiling'the leaves and stems with sweet oil until all 
the water has been driven off, is used as a cleansing application 
to wounds (Dymock). A tooth paste made of the astringent 
leaves and common salt is used to strengthen the gums and in 
tooth-ache due to caries (Sakharam Arjun). Used in syphilitic 
affections as an alterative (Dr. Stewart, Cuttack). Useful in 
coughs and infantile diarrhoea (Dr. Thompson, Madras). The 
whole plant and especially the root, is much used as a diuretic 
and tonic medicine in Ceylon (Trimen). 
922 . B. noctiflora , Linn., h.f.b.i., iv. 484 . 
Habitat : — Neilgherry Mts., Ootacamund. 
A small, very prickly undershrub; branches pubescent up- 
wards. Leaves f by 4 in., obtuse or acute, grey pubescent at first ; 
petiole hardly any. Bracteoles £-4 in., with simple spines or 
denticulate near the base. Flowers axillary solitary, 2 outer sepals 
! by i-£in., large ovate acute spinous-dentate sparsely pubescent, 
corolla tube 1 4 by fin., elongate narrowly cylindric, pubescent 
without, lobes | in., round-ovated. Capsule fin., 4-seeded. 
Use. '■ — Dr. Mootooswamy says that in Tanjore a decoction of 
this plant is used as an adjunct to, and substitute for, human 
milk. 
923 . B. cristata, Linn., h.f.b.i., iv. 488 . 
Syn. : — B. dichotoma, Roxb. 471. 
Sans. : — Jhinti. 
Vern. Jhanti and Sada-jati (B.) ; Jhinli (Assam.) ; Tadrelu 
(Bazar name, b4ns4 siyAh) (Pb.) ; Gorp-jiba, kdla bansa N-.W. 
P.) ; Koileka (Uriya.) 
Habitat. — N.-W. Himalaya, Sikkim, Khasia, Burma, Central 
India, Nilgiri. Common in' Indian gardens ; often wild in and 
near Bombay and the Thana District (K. R K.) 
A small, perennial, erect or diffuse undershrub.. Branches ad- 
pressedly yellow, hairy. Leaves oblong or elliptic, acute, yellow, 
hairy beneath, 3-4 , by lin. Petiole £-|in. Spikes ovate, often 
compressed, dense, bracteoles |-fin., linear-lanceolate, toothed. 
Outer sepals |in., toothed, softly hairy, glabrous, subspinescent. 
