1110 
INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 
A glabrous shrub. Leaves 1-1 fin., sub-opposite, oblong, 
thinly coriaceous, oblong or obovate-oblong, tip rounded, base 
caneate ; brown when dry ; nerves numerous, very slender. 
Flowers few, interminal subsessile fascicles. Perianth kin. long, 
glabrous, greenish-yellow. Disk-scales usually united in pairs. 
Fruit ifin. long, ovoid, scarlet. 
Uses : — In his Madagascar drugs, in Ph. J., 12th Aug., 1882., 
Mr. E. M. Holmes writes under Ilazomafanu : “ The pounded 
bark given in doses of 1 dram, mixed with salt and ginger, as 
a purgative. It probably possesses similar properties to Daphne 
Mezereun, and would be worthy of a trial as a substitute for it 
in the native materia medica.” There is no record of the use 
of this drug in any part of India. 
1099. Lasiosiphon eriocephalusl , Dene., ii.f.b.i., 
v. 197. 
Venn. : — Rametha (M.) ; Rami (Kan ); Naha (Sing.). 
Habitat : — Deccan Peninsula ; on the Ghats from the Con- 
can southwards, 'ascending to 7,000 ft. on the Nilghiris. 
A large shrub or small tree. Bark grey, rather smooth, 
inner bark fibrous. Wood white or yellowish-white, hard, 
much-branched. Branchlets usually purplish. Leaves 2-3 by 
-|-lin., sub-sessile, lanceolate-oblong, opposite or scattered, not 
coriaceous ; nerves very slender and oblique. Flowers thickly 
clothed with white or bluff, long, silky, villous hairs, in dense 
globose heads, l-2in. diant, supported by silky, involucral 
bracts, shorter than flowers. Perianth long, yellow ; 
tube slender ; lobes 4-5, oblong, obtuse ; scales at its mouth 
very variable, alternating with the lobes, oblong or cordate, or 
bi-fid. Fruit dry, included in the lower persistent of the 
perianth (hollow receptacle). 
Uses : — A powerful vesicant, but very uncertain in its action. 
A tooth-brush, made of the young branch, is said to cause fall- 
ing out of the teeth (Sakharam ArjunV The bark is used to 
poison fish. In the Deccan the leaves are applied to contusions, 
swellings, etc. (B. D. Basu.) 
