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INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 
minute round glands (C. B. Clarke). Petiole Jin. Racemes 
l-2in., bracts |in. caducous. Calyx Jin., tomentose, but with 
large bare glands. Corolla ljin., tomentose with glabrous 
glands. Drupe -Jin., long ovoid or obovoid 1-2-seeded. 
Use : — Used for rheumatism, pains in the loins, and syphilitic 
diseases. It was known to the Portuguese under the name 
Tints Madre de Dens The root was in great request in Goa as 
an antidote to every poison, and a .remedy for every disease in 
former days. The roots are slightly bitter, astringent, and 
aromatic IDymock). It is regarded by the Hindu doctors as a 
demulcent and alterative. “ The leaves and young shoots of 
this shrub abound with a thick, viscid mucilage, which is 
imparted readily to cold water, which, when thus impregnated, 
is employed by the natives in the treatment of gonorrhoea to 
allay ardour urinae ” (Pharm. Ind ). At the present time the 
root is principally employed as a demulcent for gonorrhoea and 
catarrh of the bladder (Watt). 
958. Vitex trifolia, Linn. H.F.n.l., IV. 583 ; 
Roxb 481. 
Savs.: — Sindhuvara ; Sindhuka. 
Vcrii .: — Nishinda (B.) ; Pani- ki-sanbhalu, sambhalus (H.); 
Nirnochi (Tam.) ; Vavilli (Tel.) ; Lingoor (Mar.) ; Pani-ki-iSam- 
blialfi (Dec.); Nira-lakki-gida (Kan.). 
Habitat : — Scattered throughtout India, in the tropical and 
sub-tropical region, from the foot of the Himalaya to Ceylon, 
nowhere common. 
A shrub or small tree. Shoots hairy or tomentose. Leaves, 
opposite, 3-often 1-foliate. Leaflets sessile, pleasantly aromatic 
1 -3in . , obovate or ovate oblong sub-obtuse entire, glabrate 
above ; beneath tomentnm of matted, scarcely stellate hail's, so 
close as with difficulty to be scraped off. Petiole lin. Panicles 
terminal penultimate axillary, closely white tomentose ; 1-4-in. 
oblong, often leafy at the base ; bracts minute, peduncles often 
added. Calyx J Jin ; cup-shaped minutely 5-toothed. Corolla 
tomentose, lavender to blue, J-Jiji., small tubular. Stamens 4, 
didynamous. Filaments hairy at the base. Drupe jin. diain., 
black. 
