1080 
INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 
Variydttu (Tam.) ; Nattureval-chinni (Tel.) ; Gainni-revan-chini 
(Guz.) ; Padam-chal (Nepal); Arcliu (Garhwal); Mulka-cha-reval- 
chini (Mar.) ; Nat-reva-chinni (Kan.). 
Habitat : —Sub-alpine and Alpine Himalaya ; Nepal, Sikkim 
and Simla. 
Herbs. Stem very stout, tall, branched, leafy ; 5-6ft. high, 
streaked, green and brown. Root very stout. Radical leaves 
often 2ft. diam., papillose beneath, scabrous above ; petiole 
12-18in., very stout, scaburlous, orbicular, or broadly ovate, 
obtuse ; base cordate, 5-7-nerved. Panicle leafy, papillosely 
puberulous, fastigiately branched, 2-3ft. Flowers dark-purple, 
jin. diam. Fruit jin. long, oblong, ovoid, purple, base cordate, 
apex notched, wings narrower than the disk. 
1067. R. accuminatum, Hook. f. and Thom., 
H.F.B.I., v. 57. 
Habitat : — Sikkim, Himalayas. 
Probably only a small form, says J. D. Hooker, of R. Emodi, 
Wall., with acuminate leaves, but the flowers are considerably 
larger, and, though long under cultivation, it does not attain half 
the size of that plant or vary in its character. Stem leafy ; 
leaves long-petioled, triangular or orbicular, ovate, acuminate ; 
base cordate, 5-7-nerved, panicles papillosely puberulous, fasti- 
giately branched and leafy ; flowers red ; fruit ovoid, oblong, 
base, cordate, tip entire or notched, wings narrower than the 
nucleus. 
1068. R. W ehbianum, Roijle, h.f.b.i., v. 57. 
Habitat : — Central and Western Alpine Himalaya. 
Very variable in size, from 1 to 6ft. high, stem branched, leafy. 
Leaves 4in. — 2ft. in diam ; long-petioled, orbicular-cordate or 
reniform, 5-7-nerved papillose or glabrous, tip rounded or sub- 
acute Panicles axillary and terminal, leafy, quite glabrous. 
Flowers pale-yellowish, very much smaller than R. Emodi, the 
panicles less strict, the fruit broader, jin. diam., with broader 
wings. Fruit notched at both ends. 
