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of re-appearing in Manipur while it nowhere occurs in the 
vast expanse of the tableland of India that lies between the 
Deccan and Manipur.” 
An erect herb, softly villous, with spreading hairs. Stem 
4-angled. Leaves sometimes 9 inches long, membranous, long- 
petioled, -ovate or ovate-lanceolate, sinuate or cut and toothed 
or crenate, base narrowly cuneale. Whorls dense- fid globose, 
secund, continuous or separate, in long peduncled hirsute spikes 
sometimes 9in. long. Bracts narrow, falcate, equalling the 
Calyx, ciliate. Calyx ’in. long, tubular, teeth long, subulate, 
ciliate. Corolla white, with purple upper lip (probably a form 
of P. arvillora (J. D. Hooker) 
Use. — Used like P. parviflorus. It seems more likely than 
either P. plectranlhoides or T. parviflorus to be used medicinal- 
ly (Watt). 
979 . P. ■parviflorus , Benlh., h.f.b.i., iv. 632 . 
Verv. : — Phangla, pangla (Bomb.). 
Habitat : — Subtropical Himalaya, from Kumaon to Bhotan. 
Assam, Khasia Ilills, and Silhet, • Chittagong. West Deccan 
Peninsula, from the Concan to the Anamallay. 
An annual herb, stout erect, branched, glabrous pubescent 
or scaberulous. Leaves long-petioled, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, 
singly or doubly crenate-toothed or serrate, base cuneate.' 
Whorls dense-fid, subglobose in dense cylindric or one-sided 
softly hairy spikes. Bracts elliptic ovate, exceeding the hirsute 
calyx. Calyx Jin. long narrow, usually purplish. Calyx teeth 
short, triangular-lanceolate, ciliate. The stem and branches are 
usually dark-purple, but not constantly. 
Uses : — The fresh leaves, when bruised, are applied as a cata- 
plasm in order to clean wounds and promote healthy granula- 
tion. The roots are reputed to be a remedy for the bite of the 
Phursa snake ( Ecliis Carinata ) (Dymock). In Satara, the juice 
of the leaves is given in colic and fever (B. D. Basu). 
Surg.-Maj. J. Paiker, Med. Store-keeper to Gov., Bombay, 
in his letter dated 21st April 1890, to the Sec., Indigen. Drugs 
Com., Calcutta wrote : — 
The root juice is used internally and externally in snake-hite (Phursa), but 
the plant is said to be efficacious in the tresh state only. It would be well to 
