1126 
INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 
An annual herb, quite glabrous or sparsely hairy. Stems 
very many, prostrate and spreading from the root ; leafy, very 
slender, and much distichously branched, spreading in a whorl 
from the root, 4-10in. long, whitish brittle. Leaves always 
small, opposite, |-£in., very short, obliquely-oblong, rounded- 
oblong or sub-quadrate, coriaceous, opaque, sometimes as broad 
as long, spreading at right angles ; if toothed, only at the broad 
end ; nerveless. Stipules minute, triangular, 2-partite or laci- 
niately toothed. Involucres numerous from the base to the 
tip of the stems and branches, minute, campanulate, very 
shortly pedicelled. Bracts at the base of the pedicels, subulate ; 
lobes triangular, acute, nearly entire ; glands very shortly sti- 
pitate. Style very short. Capsule shortly pedicelled, join, 
diam. Cocci obtusely keeled, glabrous. Seeds smooth, bluish, 
when wet mucous. 
Use: — In Chutia Nagpur, a preparation of this plant, along 
with that of Cryptolepis Buchannni is given to nursing mothers 
when the supply of milk fails or is deficient (Revd. A. 
Campbell). 
1116. E. tirucalli, Linn., h.f.b.i., v. 251 ; Roxb. 
390. 
Sans. : — Ganderi, trikantaka, vajradruma, dandasinha. 
Vern. : — Selind, thohar, sehunr (H.) ; Lanka sij, latadaona 
(13.) ; Siju (Sant.); Seju, ksharisiju, lanka (Uriya) ; Thora, Tliur 
(Sind.) Niwal nivali shera, seyr, teg, vajraduhu (Mar.); Thor- 
dandaiio (Guz.) ; Tirukali, ka]li, kombu-kalli (Tam.) ; Jemudu, 
kalli (Teh); Kodukalli, mondugaUi (Kan.) ; Tirukalli ; katerurna 
(Mah). 
Habital : — A native of Africa, naturalized in Bengal, the 
Konkan and the Deccan, as also in Sindh. Thrives very well at 
Karachi. 
A large, unarmed, milky shrub or small tree, 10-20 ft. Bark 
brown or greenish-brown. Wood white or grey, moderately 
hard. Trunk 6-10in. diam., green, cylindric, densely branched 
above. Branches terete, smooth, green, jointed, slender like 
stout rushes, becoming as thick as the little finger. Leaves 
