982 
INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 
Among the Santals the root is given as a medicine in fevers 
(Revd. A. Campbell). 
W.B. — In Bombay, the above two species are sometimes employed by the 
shopkeepers to adulterate Fumitory (Fumaria officinalis) ; hence they are 
also called pitpipra thore (K. R. K.). 
941 . Didiptera Roxburghiana, Nees., h.f.b.i., 
iv. 553 . 
V ern. : — Kirch, Semni, Lakshmana (Pb.) ; Bouna (Simla). 
Habitat: — Frequent in the plains of N. India, from the 
Punjab to Assam, Silhet and E. Bengal, Bhotan. 
Diffuse herbs. Stems 1 -3ft., elongate, very nearly glabrate. 
Leaves 2\ by 1 i n . , base cuneate, elliptic, acute, obscurely 
pubescent or glabrate. Petiole jin. Flowers in clusters, axillary 
and terminal, sessile, more rarely shortly peduncled. Bracts 
nearly f by Jin., often 3-nerved, ciliate, thihly pubescent, 
cuneate-elliptic obovate, apiculate, not acuminate. Corolla fin. 
Capsule fin., clavate, puberulous or glabrous. Seeds conspicu- 
ously verrucose. 
Use : — According to Stewart, the plant is used medicinally 
in the ^Punjab. 
It is said to be a useful tonic (Watt). 
942 . Peristrophe bicalyculatci, ' Nees., h.f.b.i., 
iv. 554 . 
Sijn. : — Justicia bicalyculata, Vahl., Roxb 42. 
V ern. : — Nasa bhaga (B.) ; Barge khode baba (Santal.) ; Kali- 
andi jahria (Merwara); Ghatpitta-pdpada (Mahr.) ; Atreelal 
(Hind.) ; Nazpat (Sind.) ; Chebira (Tel.). 
Habitat : — Tropical and Subtropical India, from the Punjab 
and Sind to Assam and Madras. 
Erect spreading herbs, thinly patently hairy. Leaves 2 by 
lin., ovate, acuminate. Petiole fin. Each pair of bracts long- 
petioled. Bracts f by join., unequal, linear or linear-spathulate, 
acute mucronate. Panicles lax, divaricate. Corolla f-fin. Anther 
cells ovoid, remote, ovoid, not linear, which latter is the charac- 
teristic of the other species of genu's Peristrophe Capsule f-fin. 
Seeds minutely glandular, papillose. 
