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Uses : — According to Rheede, the whole of the plant, macer- 
ated in an infusion of rice, is said to be a useful remedy in 
poisonous snake-bites. Dr. Sakharam Arjun, in his' - List of 
Bombay Drugs, says that this plant is supposed to have the 
properties of Fumaria parviflora and is used in its stead, but 
has not the bitterness of that plant. 
N. 0. VERBENACE^E. 
943. Lantana indica, Roxb., i-i.f.b.i. iv., 562. 
Roxb. 488. 
Vern. : — Gbaneri ; Papar-dani (Ajmer). 
Habitat : — Roxburgh writes : — “ A native of Mysore, from 
thence Dr. B. Heyne sent the seed to the Botanic garden at 
Calcutta, where the plants thrive luxuriantly, and blossom 
during the rains.” 
It is common throughout India and Ceylon in the warmer 
parts ; on the river banks of Bengal one of the commonest 
weeds. 
A shrub, 3-8 ft. high ; branches roughly hairy, long and 
straggling, 4 angular, sometimes prickly, yellowish brown. 
Leaves 1|-2| in. long, opposite or in whorls of 3, ovate, acute 
or subobtuse, crenate-serrate, rugose and finely pubesent on 
upper suface, softly white-pubescent or subvillous beneath, 
narrowed or somewhat rounded at the base, petioles in. long. 
Flowers inodorous, sessile, arranged in axillary peduncles heads 
or spikes in, long and elongating in fruit ; peduncles l-3£ 
in., usually in opposite axils, 4-angled, thickening upwards ; 
bracts up to f in. long, ovate, acuminate, softly hairy on both 
sides. Calyx is in. long, truncate, membranous, densely hairy. 
Corolla with a pale purplish limb | in. across, hairy outside ; 
tube J in. long, yellowish ; lobes 4, rounded. Filaments very 
short. Ovary glabrous. Drupe purple when ripe, enclosed 
in the thin transparent calyx (Duthie). 
Uses : — Mr. J)utbie(Flora of the Upper Gangetic Plain, Vol. II. 
p. 216) writes : — “The leaves are regarded by the natives as a 
cure for snake-bite.” 
Indraji, in his valuable book ‘ Vanaspati Shastra” speaks 
