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Indian Medicinal planI's. 
1021. Eremostachys Vicaryi, Benth., H.F.B.I,, IV. 
695. 
Vern : — Gurgunua ; Khalatra ; Rewand chini (Pb.). 
Habitat : — Western Punjab, Peshawar, Salt Range, and 
Jhelum. 
Erect herbs, stems 3-5ft., very stout, simple or branched. 
Leaves radical,' 12-18in., ovate, pinnatisect; segments orpinnules 
sessile-glabrous, lower floral sessile oblong, lobulate, petiole 
strong, base woolly. Spikes 8-10in., rachis very stout. Whorls 
many-fid, at length distant. Calyx, |in., campanulate, scurfily 
tomentose, mouth truncate, shortly 5-crenate, crenatures 
apiculate ; galea of Corolla, says J. D. Hooker, villous and 
fringed with white hairs. 
Use : — The seeds are given as a cooling medicine. (Stewart). 
1022. Ajuga bracteosa, Wall., h.f.b.i., iv. 702. 
Vern. .—Kauri buti (Jhelum); Karku, nilkanthi (Sutlej); 
Khurbani (Trans-Indus). The bazar names are Jan-i-adam, 
mukund babri, nilkanthi. Mr Baden-Powell gives jan-i-adam 
as the vernacular of Ajuga reptans, a European species, and 
Stewart further gives that name to Salvia lanata. 
Habitat : — Western Himalaya, from Kashmir to Nepal, and 
in the plains near them from Oudh to Peshawar. 
Softly hairy herbs. Stems erect or ascending, many from 
the rootstock, branching usually diffusely from the base, 4:-12in., 
simple or divided, usually stout, leafy, softly pubescent, villous 
or glabrate, rarely substrigose or hispid. Branches terete or as- 
cending. Leaves l-4in. ; lower petioled, upper sessile, sinuate- 
toothed or nearly entire, oblaDceolate or sub-spathulate, whorls 
axillary and crowded in spikes, much shorter than the leafy 
ovate or cuneate-obovate, entire or toothed bracts. Calyx ^-in. 
villous ; Calyx-teeth ovate- lanceolate. Corolla pale blue or lilac, 
pubescent ; tube rarely twice as long as the Calyx ; upper lip 
erect, 2-fid ; side lobes or lower oblong, midlobe dilated, vari- 
able in length, stamens protruding from the upper lip. Nutlets 
^in., ellipsoid, deeply rugosely fitted. 
Uses: — Jan-f-adam is described as a bitter astringent, nearly 
