N. 0. EDPHOUBIACEjE. 
1143 
Habitat : — Throughout India, in the plains and low hills, 
from Kumaon to Assam and southward to Travancore- 
A perennial herb, often woody below, with, a long tap-root 
and numerous, elongated, slender, prostrate or ascending 
slightly-branched, compressed, glabrous stems. Leaves 
numerous, small, f-^in., on very short petioles, closely placed 
and , often overlapping, linear-oblong, obtuse, apiculate; 
stipules peltate, sagittate, brown, scarious. Flowers normally 
solitary on slender solitary pedicels ; females larger ; sepals 
oblong, obtuse ; stamens 3, distinct ; styles short, bifid. Fruit 
very small, under fin., on somewhat enlarged sepals, globose, 
faintly 3-lobed, usually tubercled. (Trimen). Seeds minute, 
trigonous, rounded on the back, finely tubercled, dark-brown. 
Var. : — Oblongifolia . — Stem erect, diffusely branched. 
Leaves 4-fin. long, elliptic-oblong, sub-acute ; female pedicels 
4-fin. Dekkan Peninsula and Ceylon. (J. D. Hooker.) A very 
variable plant in habit. 
Uses : — The natives use the fresh leaves, flowers and fruit, 
with cumin seeds and sugar, of each equal parts made into an 
electuary, for the cure of gonorrhoea, a teaspoonful is given 
twice a day. The fresh leaves, bruised and mixed with butter 
milk, make a wash to cure the itch in children. (Roxburgh). 
The root is used in Chutia Nagpur as an external applica- * 
tion for mammary abscess. (Campbell.) 
1134. P. Niruri, Linn., h.f.b.i., v. 298 ; Roxb. 
680. 
Sans. : — Bhudliatri, Bahupatri, Amrita-Amlika, Shina. 
Vent. : — Bhuin-anvalah (Hind, and Dec.); Kizhkay-nelli 
(Tam.) ; Nela-usirika (Tel.) ; Kizha-nelli (Mai.) ; Kiranelli-gida 
(Kan.); Miziphiyu (Burm.); Bhui av'ali (Bom.); Blniiaola (Uriya); 
Niruri (Sind). 
Habitat : -Throughout the hotter parts of India ; from the 
Punjab to Assam ; and southward to Travancore. A reddish 
petioled variety found wild and common in the Thana district 
(K. 1L K.) 
