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INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 
sepals elliptic or obovate, suddenly spinulose and densely hairy 
in fruit ;- thickened, very hairy upwards, with a raucro. Corolla 
sin., densely hairy in bud, white, with brown or purple spots in 
the palate. Stamens glabrous, anther-cells one slightly above 
the other, papillose, eiliate. Ovary glabrous. Capsule fin., 2- 
seeded, elongate conic, dorsally scarious, thin, irregularly tearing, 
only ultimately 2-valved from the subsolid tip. Seeds ovate- 
lanceolate, with very long hair, spreading elastically when wet, 
very mucilaginous (C.B. Clarke). 
Uses : — A bitter herb used in fevers (Sakharam Arjun). 
The ash of the dry plant is employed in Chutia Nagpur as 
an application to sores (Revd. A. Campbell). It is applied to 
cure itchy affections of the skin (Dymock). 
933. Justicia Gendarussa, Linn. f. h.f.b.i., iv. 
532, Roxb. 43. 
Syn. : — Gendarussa vulgaris, Nees. 
Sans. : — Nil-nirgandi. 
Vevn. ■ — Udf-sanbhdlu, nili-nargandi (Hind.) ; Jagat-madan, 
jogmodon (Beng.) ; Teo, kala-adulsa (Bomb.) ; Kalfshanbil/ 
(Dec.); Karu-noch-chi, karuppu-noch-chi (Tam.); Nela-v&vili, 
nalla-noch-chi, nalla-v&vili (Tel.) ; Karelakki'-gida (Kan.) ; 
Karun-noch-chi, vatak-koti, vatan-golli (Mai.) 
Habitat : — Throughout India, from Bengal to Ceylon. 
A perennial, much branched, undershrub. Stems 2-4ft., erect, 
quadrangular, thickened above the nodes, glabrous, purple. 
Leaves 4 by fin., sometimes 5in. long, linear lanceolate, acute 
at base, tapering to obtuse apex, entire or slightly and irregu- 
larly crenafe, glabrous and shining, rather thick, veins promi- 
nent beneath, purple. Petiole Jin. Flowers rather small, white 
or pink, with minute red dots in the throat and lip, in opposite 
clusters of three short interrupted sessile terminal spikes, lower 
clusters usually distant. Bracts fin., linear, acute. Bracteoles 0. 
Sepals fin., linear, subulate, glabrous. Corolla nearly glabrous; 
tube fin., upper lip notched, lower lip transversly rugose. Fruit 
not seen, says Triman, from Ceylon. “Lower anther-cell distinctly 
tailed. Capsule fin., clavate, glabrous, 4-seeded” (C.B, Clarke). 
