964 
INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 
ovate, acuminate or lanceolate nervose. Corolla l|in., purple- 
blue or white ; tube funnel-shaped in the upper half, lobes |in., 
ovate. Capsule |in., 4-seeded. Seeds orbicular, compressed, 
silky. 
Uses : — The seeds are supposed to be an antidote for snake- 
bite, and the roots and leaves are used to reduce swelling, and 
an infusion is given in coughs ( Watt). 
924 . B. strigosa, Willd. h.f.b.i., iv. 489 . 
Syn. : — B. ccerulea, Roxb. 471. 
Vern. : — Dasee (B.) ; Wahiti, K41a Korduta (Bomb.). 
Habitat : — Sub-Himalayan tracts eastwards, Bengal, Assam 
and Sikkim ; also in the Bombay Presidency, and S. India. 
An unarmed shrub, 3-4ft. high. Stems more or less 
strigose with fulvous hairs. Leaves 44—6 in. long, ovate or 
elliptic, acute or acuminate, the base long-decurrent on the 
petiole, lineolate and sparingly fulvous strigose on the upper 
surface, densely strigose on the nerves and veins beneath and 
with bulbous-based hairs intermixed, margins ciliate, main 
lateral nerves 6-8 pairs. Flowers in dense fulvous-hairy unilater- 
al spikes, often crowded at the tops of the branches ; bracteoles 
about |in. long, lanceolate, hairy on the back and with ciliate 
margins. Calyx densely strigose ; outer segments sub-equal, 
4-lin. long, elliptic-lanceolate, sub-acute, margins denticulate 
and ciliate ; inner smaller, linear, acute, densely clothed, with 
white appressed silky hairs. Corolla li-2in. long, blue ; tube 
pale-blue, upper part funnel-shaped ; lobes obovate-oblong, 
obtuse. Capsule f in long, acute at the top, 4-seeded, glabrous. 
Seeds silky-hairy (Dut.hie). 
Use : —The root is used by the Santals as a remedy for 
coughs. 
925 . Neuracanthus sphcei-ostachyus, Dalz, h.f.b.i., 
iv. 491 . 
Verv. : — Ghosvel (M.). 
Habitat : — Concan ; common in Bombay island. 
A stout, nnbranched, rough shrub, Stem 1-2 ft. Leaves 
