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the taste of water, and, in addition, to lessen the quantity of water taken, 
which in hot countries is often so excessive as to produce serious illness. As 
a remedy it is invaluable from its demulcent properties, in cases of gastro- 
intestinal disorders. It also holds a place among domestic remedies, for the 
same purpose that flax seed occasionally does with us, i.c., a grain of the seed 
is placed in the eyo (whore it gives no pain) to form a mucilage by means of 
which a foreign body may be removed from the organ. I have found it of 
great service as a poultice. 
With reference to the above, Mr. John M. Maisch wrote 
Most of the fruits of the Labiate do not differ very greatly in size or shape, 
and more or less similarity must be expected among those of the numerous 
species of salvia ; how many of those may agree in (lie colour of their epicarp 
and in the presence of the mucilaginous epithelium it is impossible at the 
present time to say. Hut I think it must be concluded that at least several 
species have fruits rescmbing in appearance very small ricinus seeds, and 
that most likely such of them which arc mucilaginous have been used by the 
aborigines under the name of chia, which would, therefore, have to be regarded 
as a generic term, applicable to all fruits of salvias having the characters 
indicated. 
Seeds of Indian species of Salvia may be put to the same uses as- those of 
Mexico and California. 
1002. Ncpeta clliptica, Roijle, ii.v.b.i., iv. 658. 
Vern . — Tukm malanga (Pb.). 
Habitat . — Western Temperate Himalaya, from Kashmir to 
Kumaon. 
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Herbs often flexuous, ascending, densely hairy. Stem l-2ft., 
woolly branched. Leaves subsessile elliptic-oblong or obcor- 
date, tip rounded or acute, pectinately crenate, J-lin., tomentose. 
Whorls sessile, crowded in terminal spikes. Spikes Sin. long, 
slender, often interrupted at base ; bracts ovate or lanceolate, 
awned ; calyx sessile yin., teeth filiform ciliate, as loDg as the 
tube ; flowers about -Jin. long, pale-blue, nearly white (Collett). 
Corolla-tube hardly longer than the Calyx. 
Use . — One dram of seeds infused in cold water, used in 
dysentery. 
1003. N. ciliaris, Benth., ii.f.b i., iv. 661 f 
Vern. — Ziifa zabis (Pb.) ; Joofa (Sind). 
Hahka '. — Western Temperate Himalaya, from Kashmir to 
Garhwal. 
Herbs tall, erect, branched, softly densely tomentose ; stem 
