1160 
INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 
Uses : -The ashes of the root are given to children for cough. 
The leaves are considered depurative. The seeds are used as 
purgative. (Stewart.) Its value in leprosy is asserted. (Drury.) 
The Santals mix the root with that of Carissa Carandas for 
blistering purposes. (Revd. A. Campbell.) 
1152. Acalypha fruticosa, Forsk ., h.f.b.i., v. 
415. 
Sijn. : — Acalypha betulina, Relz. ; A. amentacea, Rox'>. 686. 
Vern.: — Chunrn maram (Tam.); Chinni ; Tsinni (Tel.); 
Chinni-kd-jhar (Dec.). 
Habitat : — Deccan Peninsula. 
A low shrub, more or less covered with yellow, waxy glands, 
strong smelling or foetid when bruised, very much-branched ; 
branches slender, virgate, spreading or ascending, glabrous; 
young parts scurfily pubescent. Leaves alternate, numerous, 
but rather distant, f-2in., oblong or rhomboid-ovate, acute at 
base, shortly acuminate, coarsely or finely crenate-serrate, 
glabrous, with small punctiform, orange, scattered glands 
beneath. Petiole £-llin., slender. Stipules minute, persistent. 
Flowers minute, sessile, on strict pedicels in clusters, crowded 
on short axillary spikes ; male very numerous, with minute 
bracts. Stamens 8. Female 2 or 3 at base of spikes, each with 
toothed bracts ; styles 3, split into many filiform segments. 
Capsule with 3 rounded lobes, densely pubescent ; seeds smooth. 
(Trimen). 
Uses : —Leaves attenuant and alterative and an agreeable 
stomachic in dyspepsia and other ailments. The dose of the 
infusion of the leaves as ordered by the Vaidyas in Southern 
Inida is half a teacupful twice in the day. (Ainslie.) 
1153. A. indica, Linn., h.f.b.i., v. 416 Roxb., 
685. 
Syn. : — A. spicata, Forsk. ; A. ciliata and A. canescens. 
Vern.: — Kuppi, khokali (H.) ; Khokli, khajoti (Mar.); 
Vanchhi kanto (Guj.) ; Muktajuri, shet basanta, murkanta 
(Beng.); Indra-maris (Uriya) ; Kuppaimeni (Tam.); Kuppai- 
chettu, murkanda-chettu, (Tel.) ; Chalmari, kuppi (Kanara). 
