1044 
INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS 
Use : — An infusion of the leaves is drunk for contusions 
produced by blows, and about Kumaon the same preparation 
is used as a bitter tonic and febrifuge. (Stew ait). 
1015. Otostegia limbata, Benth. Mss.; h.f.b.i., iv. 
680. c 
Vern. : — Bui, phutkanda, jaridi, lana, ka'ndiari, agzlian, 
awani-buti Pb.). 
Ilnbitat : — Punjab, lower hills, in rocky places, west of the 
Jhelum to the Salt Range. 
A small grey, hoary spiny bush. Blanches tomentose, white, 
terete. Spines f-fin. Leaves sub-sessile elliptic-lanceolate, 
obtuse or quite entire, nerveless 1 in., base narrowed, hoary on 
both surfaces, floral exceeding the calyces. Bracts lower spinescent, 
upper dilated pungent, whorls distant. Calyx villous, throat 
bearded, flowering fin., turbinate with a broad membranous 5- 
toothed limb, which in fruit expands into a reticulated 5-angled 
cup, fin. diam., with often toothed margins. Corolla fin., tube 
short, upper lip very long, villous. Stamens exserted. Nutlets 
fin , flattened, smooth. 
Uses : — The juice of the leaves is applied to children’s gums, 
and to ophthalmia in man and beast. (Stewart). 
1016. Leuc,as cephalotes, Spreng., ii.f.b.i., iv. 689. 
Si/n. : — Phlomis Cephalotes, Roth Roxb. 4G1, 
Vern. : — Dhurpi sdg (H.); Bara palkasa ( B.) ; Audia dhurup 
arak (Santali) ; Kubi (Guz.) ; Pedda tumui, tum-ui (Tel ); Kedari 
Tumba (Mar.). Phumian, sisalius, maldoda, guldoda, chatra (Pb.); 
Habitat Himalaya, from Simla to Bhotan. Plains from 
Chittagong and Assam to the Punjab, and south through the 
Deccan. \ 
A tall stout scaberulous annual herb. Stem 2-3ft., hairs 
spreading. Leaves membranous, more or less pubescent, 2-4in., 
shortly-petioled ovate or ovate-lanceolate, sub-acute, crenate ser- 
rate ; whorls l-2in. diam. very large-rounded by the imbricating 
membranous adpressed bracts ; terminal whorls globose. Bracts 
elliptic or linear-lanceolate, awned. Calyx fin., tubular slightly 
