N. 0. EOPHORBIAOEJ: 
1159 
Habitat : — The Punjab, Salt Range, Sindh and the Deccan. 
An annual, prostrate herb. The whole plant softly clothed 
with stellate tomentum. Root stout. Branches 6-10in. Leaves 
thick, softly tomentose on both surfaces, l|-2jin. long, from 
ovate and sinuate-toothed or entire to rounded and obtusely- 
lobed. Petiole often Sin Racemes short, lengthening in fruit. 
Male flowers numerous ; calyx globose, segments 5, valvate ; 
petals 5 ; disk obscure ; stamens 5-20. Female flowers: — pedicels 
at length decei ved and sometimes Sin. long in fruit ; calyx and 
petals of the male. Ovary and capsule stellately tomentose and 
clothed with silvery scales ; capsule £in. diam. (J. D. Hooker.) 
Uses : — Lindley mentions it as possessing emetic, drastic 
and corrosive properties. 
l)r. J. Hornsey Casson, Physician to Her Majesty’s Legation 
in Persia, called the attention of the Director of Kew gardens to 
this plant which caused the death of 6 persons with symptoms 
of severe jaundice, abdominal pain, bilious vomitting, dilatation 
of pupil, bleeding from the nose, bloody urine tinged with 
bile and stupor. (Ph. J. Dec. 28, 1889, p. 504.) 
1151 . C. piicata, Muell., Arg., ii.f.b.i., v. 409 . 
Syn. : — Croton plicatum, Willd. Roxb. 087. 
Vern. Shahdevi, subali, sonballi (H. and Sind) ; Okharada 
(Guz ); Khudiokra (B.) ; Pango nari (Santal); Put kanda, 
nilkhanti, nil-ak-rai (Pb.) ; Gurugu chettu, linga miriyam 
(Tel.). 
Habitat : — Throughout India, from the Punjab to Travancore 
and from Bengal to Pegu and Burma. 
An erect hoary annual herb up to 2ft. high, with a long 
straight slender tap-root. Stem usually naked below, sparingly 
branched above. Leaves 2-4 in. long, ovate to orbicular, often 
obscurely 3-lobed, thick, rugose, pale-green, stellate-hairy on 
both surfaces ; petioles l-2in. long Male flowers : — Calyx £in. 
long. Petals smaller, very thin, ovate-lanceolate. Stamens 15, 
in two whorls. Fern, flowers : — Sepals i 2 in. long, triangular. 
Petals shorter and narrower. Capsules £in. in diam., densely 
stellate-hairy, but without silvery scales. (Duthie). 
