N. O LABIATES. 
1047 
Calyx pale below, not striate above, toothing variable, sometimes 
spinescent, I-|in., obovoid, glabrous or puberulous, mouth 
very oblique, contracted, glabrous within upper lip, projecting, 
acute 3-toothed, lower 2-fid. 
Use : — The natives of Central India believe that the leaves, 
when roasted and eaten with salt, have febrifugal properties 
(Duthie). 
1020 . Leonotis nepetce folia , Br. h.f.b.i., iv. 691 . 
Syn. : — Phlomis nepetaefolia, Linn. Roxb. 461. 
Vern. : — Hejur-chei ( H. ) ; Dare dhompo, janum dhompo 
(Santal) ; Mati-jer, matisul (Guz.). Dipmal, Ekri. (Mar.) ; Rana 
'bheri, beri, mulu golimidi, hanumanta bira (Tel.). 
Habitat-. — Throughout hotter India, from the Punjab* to 
Travancore. 
A tall, herbaceous annual 4-Gft. . Stem as thick as the finger, 
4-angled with concave faces, puberulous. Leaves 4-8 by 2-5in., 
membranous ovate, crenate, floral lanceolate, deflected. Bracts 
spinescent, winged, linear, deflexed. Petiole l-3in. winged 
above, slender. Whorls distinct, globose, 2 3iu. diam., squarrose. 
Calyx ribbed and reticulate, pubescent or villous, 
tubular incurved ; teeth spinescent, upper lip prominent 
rigid, | in. long. Lower with three erect spinescent rigid teeth. 
Throat glabrous. Corolla orange-red, lin. long, tube slender, 
exserted, villous like the upper lip, lower lip minute. Nutlet 
linear-oblong, widening upward, truncate. 
Uses : — In Cbutia Nagpur, the ash produced by burning the 
flower-buds is applied to burns and scalds (Revd. A. Camp- 
bell). In Bombay, the ashes of the flower-heads mixed with 
curds is applied to ringworm and other itchy diseases of the 
skin. Dr. A. J. Amadeo states that it is called Rascamono in 
Porto-Rico, and that a decoction of the leaves is used as a tonic, 
the juice is also expressed and taken with limejuice and rum as 
a febrifuge. Dr. Amadeo has used it in combination with 
Phyllanthus Niruri in intermittents. (Dymock.) 
