1032 
INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 
997. M. Bengalensis, Benth. h.f.b.i., iv. 653. 
Syn. : — Salvia bengalensis, Roxb. 49. 
Habitat : — Native of Abyssinia ; cultivated in India. 
Vera : — Kapur-ka-patta (II.) ; Sesti (Bom.); Shima-karpu- 
ram-aku (Tam.) 
A large strongly-sceuted, straggling sbrub, finely tomentose 
or hoary. Branches cylindric. Leaves 2-3 by l-l|in., finely 
crenulate, obtuse thinner than in M. strobilifera, as finely granu- 
late obove and reticulate beneath, base rouuded or bractate. 
Petiole slender, £-£in., spikes terminal with interrupted ebracteate 
globose whorls. Whorls £-£in. diara., villous. Calyx }in. long, 
pedicelled, teeth acute. Corolla white, lips spreading or recurved. 
Nutlets obovoid, smooth, brown (J. D. Hooker). 
Uses : — The camphoraceous bitter plant possessing the pro- 
perties of Sage (Salvia officinalis). Leaves are much used in 
native practice, an infusion being an useful application to 
aphtha; and sore throats, according to Mr. Rama Churn Bose, 
who also notices its power to diminish or arrest the secretion of 
milk ( Pharm . Ind.). 
998. Salvia moorcroftiuna, Wall., h.f.b.i., iv. 
654. 
Vern.— Kali-japi ; Shobri ; Gurgumna (Pb.J. 
Habitat. — Western Temperate Himalaya, from Kashmir to 
Kumaon. 
A very robust tall erect herb, clothed with white, usually 
woolly or cottony hairs on stem, leaves beneath and often above 
petiole and branches of panicle ; very rarely glabrous. Stems 
l£-3ft. Leaves thick, long stalked, ovate or oblong, 5-8 by 2£- 
6in., sinuately and irregularly lobed, crenate or sharply toothed ; 
upper surface nearly glabrous or cottony-tomentose, closely 
wrinkled ; lowerwbite tomentose. Flowers lin. long, pale blue, 
lilac or nearly white, in many distant whorls ; bracts large, 
pale, green-veined, orbicular, abruptly pointed. Calyx bristly, 
bell-shaped ; teeth spinous ; upper-lip 3-toothed. Corolla-tube 
much longer than the calyx ; upper lip long, curved, flattened, 
concave (Collett). Nutlets subglobose (J. D. Hooker). 
