1150 
INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 
A much-branched, small tree. Young shoots glabrous. 
Wood hard, usually red, smooth, apt to split and warp. Leaves 
glabrous above, l-3in., sub-sessile, from oblong or lanceolate to 
orbicular-ovate or-obovate obtuse, acute or acuminate, brown 
when dry, reticulate and shining on both surfaces, coriaceous ; 
nerves usually very slender and obscure ; petiole very rarely, 
12 in. Spikes simple or panicled, slender, pubescent, l-l£-in. ; 
calyx'4-lobed, very minute. Disk glabrous ; stamens 3. Female 
flowers shortly pedicelled. Stigmas very short, sub-lateral. 
Fruit jin. diam., gibbously orbicular, turgid. 
Use : — The leaves in decoction are used for snake-bites. 
(Balfour.) 
1141. Jatropha glandulifera, Roxb., H.F.B.J., 
v. 382 ; Roxb. 689. 
Sans. : — Nikumba. 
Vern. : — Addalay (Tam.); Dundigapu ; Nela-amida (Tel.) ; 
Lal-bherenda ( B.) ; Verendi (Kol.); Undar-bibi, jangli-erandi 
(H.) ; Totla-gida (Kan.). 
Habitat : — Deccan Peninsula, from the Concan southwards. 
N.B.— The legend concerning the first springing up of the plant at 
I’and»rpur mentioned by Dymock (Pharmacogr. Ind. III. 272) and Cooke (Flora 
of Bomb. II. 507) is not true (K. R. K.). 
A shrub or small, glaucous-looking, evergreen tree, with 
much clear yellowish juice ; trunk short, stout, dichotomously- 
branched, glabrous. Leaves 3-4in. long, and as broad, deeply 
3 5-lobed ; lobes obovate or elliptic acuminate, or acute at the 
apex, leafy, cordate at the base, sharply serrate with glandular 
bristles at the serrature tips ; lateral nerves numerous, slender ; 
petioles 2-3in. long, not glandular, nor hairy. (K. U. K.). Sti- 
pules divided into capillary gland, tipped ; segments bracts 
setose and glandular. Flowers greenish yellow, (Hooker, but 
Dymock says “dull red”), glandular, in long peduncled corym- 
bose cymes. Male flowers greenish-yellow. Calyx |in. long, 
glabrous, very deeply divided ; lobes ovate, obtuse. Corolla 
5-lobed, lobes obtuse, £in. ; tube very short. Stamens 8, 
connate at the base into a column, free above. Disk of 5 glauds 
