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INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 
Anhydrous spinach contained, as the mean of three analyses of different 
samples,— 
Nitrogen 
Carbohydrates 
4-94 
37 93 
1046. Kochia hidica, Wight, h.f.b.i., v. 11. 
Syn. : — Panderia pilosa, H. f. and T. 
V ern : — Kaura ro, bui (Pb). 
Habitat -. — North-West India, from Delhi to the Indus com- 
mon. Dekkan ; salt soils at Coimbatore. 
An annual herb, erect and softly villous, diffusely branched 
from the base. Branchlets divaricate, long. Leaves small, 
elliptic or linear-oblong, acute. Wings of fruiting perianth 
short, broadly triangular-ovate, obtuse, thick, nerveless, much 
shorter than the diameter of the disk. Wight states that 
flowers are. sometimes male only, and 1 think it probable that 
fertile males are on different plants from the female or her- 
maphrodite. (J. D. Hooker.) 
Use : — The giant is employed medicinally iu the Punjab 
(Stewart). Used as a vascular (cardiac) stimulant in cases of 
weak and irregular heart, especially when following on fevers, 
(Dr Perry, in Watt’s Die.) 
1047. Sa/icornia brachiata, lioxb., h.f.b.i., v. 
12. Roxb. 28. 
Vern . : — Oomarie Keeray (Tam.) ; Koyalu (Tel.). 
Habitat : — Bengal, in salt marshes; and Tanjore. 
A semi-shrubby, leafless, fleshy-jointed, seacoast marshy 
plant. Stem woody, 12-18in., thick at the base, much branched, 
more or less erect, very much branched. Branches 4-?in. diam. 
.Joints 4-lin., rather slender, slightly dilated and 2-toothed at 
top. Spikes 2-3in., slender, cylindrical.- Flowers 3-nate. Sta- 
men 1. Utricle ovoid, subacute, style distinct. Seed pale-brown, 
hispid, with white hair. Testa thinly coriaceous. Embryo 
hooked, both ends pointing downward. 
Use : — This is one of the numerous sources of the alkaline 
earth, sajji, used in medicine and in the arts. (Watt.) 
