N. 0. EUPH0RB1A0E* 
1173 
Uses :— The seeds are used as a. drastic purgative, but in 
over-doses are an acro-narcotic poison ; they are sometimes 
used as a substitute for Croton Tiglium. They are also used 
externally as a stimulant and rubefacient. The oil is a 
powerful hydragogue cathartic and is useful for external ap- 
plication in rheumatism. Madden states that to the east of 
the Sutlej its leaves are in high repute for wounds, and its sap 
is believed to corrode iron. The root is considered cathartic, 
and is used in dropsy, anasarca, and jaundice. 
“A decoction of the leave said to be useful in asthma.” 
(Asst.-Surg. Bhagwan Das, Rawalpindi, Punjab.) 
1160. Tragia involucrata, Linn., h.f.b.i., v 
465 ; Roxb. 652. 
Sam. Vrischi-kali. 
Vern — Barhanta (H.) ; Bichati (B.) ; Kan churi (Tam.); 
Sengel, sing (Santal); Kinch-kure (Deccan); K&nch kfiri, 
kh&j-kolti (Bomb.); China-dula gondi, rdvati-dula gondi, truna- 
dula, gondi, duruda-gunti, tella-dura dagondi (Tel.). 
Habitat : — Throughout India, from the Punjab and Lower 
Himalaya of Kumaon, eastward to Assam, and southward to 
Burma, Travancore and Ceylon. 
A perennial, evergreen twiner, more or less pubescent or 
hispid and with scattered stinging bristles, rarely almost glab- 
rous. Leaves from linear-oblong to broadly ovate-cordate, 
acuminate, serrate, and from entire to deeply 3-fid or tripartite, 
with irregularly serrate or sub-pinnatifid lobes, ,l-4in., membran- 
ous, protean in form. (J. D. Hooker.) Racemes I-2in., slender, 
hispid or glabrous. Bracts small or minute. Male flowers 
minute, shortly pedicelled, sepals and stamens 3 ; pistillode 
3-fid. Female flowers strigosely hispid, fruiting fin. diam., 
stellately rigid, spreading, oblong, pinnatifid, rarely sub-entire. 
Uses : — The root is valued in febricula and in itching of the 
skin. (Rheede). The Vytians reckon it amongst those medicines 
which they Gonceive to possess virtues in altering and correcting 
the habit, in cases of mayghum (cachexia) and in old venereal 
