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INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 
1036. A. gangeticus, Linn., Var. nngustifolin. 
h.f.b.i., iv. 719 ; Roxb. 662. 
V urn. : — Bans-pata-natiya (B.) ; Mali clmlai (Bomb.) ; I/d sag, 
chulai-sfig, labra (Merwara). 
Habitat : —Cultivated throughout India. 
An erect glabrous annual herb, stout handsome species, much 
cultivated, 2-3ft., leafy green, pink, rufnse liver-coloured or 
bright-red. Leaves 2-f5in., very variable from linear-lanceolate, 
to rounded-oval and 3in., diarn. or deltoid ovate ; tip rounded 
or long and slender, but always obtuse and often notched, base 
elongate cuneate. Petiole equalling the blade. Clusters squar- 
rose, crowded in the lower axils and forming a terminal spike ; 
bracts -J-in. long. Bracts awned subplate, equalling orexceeding 
the 3 lanceolate sepals and utricle. Stamens 3. Utricle circum- 
ciss Seeds lenticular, pitch-black, agin, diam., border acute. 
Use : — Used as an emollient poultice. 
1037. JErua javanica, Juss., h.f.b.i., iv. 727. 
Syn. Achyranthes incana, Roxb. 225. 
Habitat From the Oudh Terai to the Punjab, Sindh, 
and Central India. The Deccan, from the Concan southward. 
A semi-shrubby plant. Stem 2-3ft„ branched, cylindric, 
covered with a thick coat of very dense stellate wool which is 
easily detached. Leaves nearly sessile alternate, l-l|in., linear- 
oblong or oblong-spathulate, rounded, slightly emarginate or 
acute, with dense woolly coat like the stem. Flowers white, 
sessile, uni-sexual, arranged in naked terminal panicles. Bracts 
large, broadly ovate; acute, papery, veinless. Perianth leaves 5, 
rather unequal, lanceolate or oval, papery, densely covered 
outside with long woolly hair, stigmas 2, long. Seed lenticular, 
black polished ^ Trimen) ; style elongate; flowers Jo in. (J. 1). 
Hooker.) Male flowers are said to be few. 
1038. iE. lanata, Juss., h.f.b.i., iv. 728. 
Syn. : — Achyranthes lanata, Linn. Roxb. 227. 
Sans. : — Astmabayda. 
Vern. : — Chaya iB.); Bhui (Raj.); Bui, jari < Sind) ; Bui- 
kallam(Pb); Knl-ke-jar, khul (Duk.) ; Azmei, spirke, sassiii 
