N. 0. LA.1UAT.1C. 
1033 
Use. — The root is given in cough, and the seeds are used 
as an emetic. The leaves are a medicine for guinea-worm and 
itch, and in the form of poultice applied to wounds. At Lahore, 
the seeds are given in colic and dysentery, and are applied to 
boils (Stewart). The seeds are given for hemorrhoids (Bellew). 
999. S. lanala, Roxb., h.f.u.i., iv. 654. 
Habitat : — Western Himalaya, at altitudes from 5,000 to S,000, 
feet. 
Robust erect herbs, softly densely wooly, white tomentose. 
Stems usually many from the root ; l-l^ft. simple or branched. 
Leaves mostly radical, sessile oblong-lanceolate 3-6 by f-l|in. 
toothed ; upper surface tomentose or nearly glabrous, closely 
wrinkled ; lower tomentose. Flowers fin. long, blue-grey in 
distant whorls; bracts viscidly hairy, large orbicular ; abruptly 
pointed. Calyx viscidly hairy, bell-shaped ; teeth spinous : upper 
lip 3-toothed. Corolla-tube not longer than the Calyx ; upper lip 
long, curved, flattened concave (Collett). Nutlets -rein., brown 
(J. D. Hooker). 
Use : — According to Stewart, this species is often confused 
with S. Moorcroftiana. It may be used separately, or as an 
adulterant. 
1000. S. plebeia , Br., h.f.b.i., iv. 65 5. 
Siyn.— S. brachiata, Roxb., 49. 
Vent. — Sathi, satnundarsok (Pb.); Kinro (Sind.); Ivoka- 
buradi, bhu-tulsi (B ). The seeds called Kammar-kas (Bomb.'. 
Habitat . — Throughout India, in the plains, and ascending 
the hills to 5,000 feet. 
An annual roughly pubescent herb. Stem stout erect hoary 
or scaberulous, 6-18in. ; fastigiately branched. Inflorescence 
glandular. Leaves petioled, oblong obtuse, or upper ovate acute 
crenate ; I-3in., narrowed at both ends ; floral small lanceolate. 
Spikes panicled, often fastigiate. Flowers hardly fin. long, 
lilac or nearly white, in small whorls in numerous slender 
panicled racemes ; bracts small, lower leaf-like, upper lanceo- 
late (Collett) Whorls very numerous. Calyx pedicelled £in., 
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