1178 
INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 
Habitat : — Behar, Hazaribagh. Deccan Peninsula, from Bom- 
bay southwards ; found in the open places and waste ground, 
common in the Tropics of the Old World generally. 
An annual, glabrous herb, with the habit of an annual 
Euphorbia ; l-2ft. high, with numerous, prostrate or ascending, 
slender branches from the root. Leaves small, alternate, 
distant, l-3in., by J-Jin., nearly sessile, linear, acute at base, 
obtuse, apiculate, very minute, serrate, glabrous, often rather 
glaucous beneath. Stipules ovate, acute, ciliate. Flowers monoe- 
cious, yellowish, apetalous. Male very minute in short axillary 
or leaf-opposed spikes, female solitary at base of the male, or 
axillary. Male flower - Calyx minute, 5-lobed, membranous, 
not covering the stamens in bud ; stamens 1-fl, filaments 
distinct. Pistillode 0. Female flower : — Sepals 3, longer than 
in male, obovate, acute, lacerate and ciliate, 2-glandular with- 
in ; ovary much exserted, 3-celled, with 1 ovule in each- cell, 
styles 3, small, not bifid. Fruit under |in., glabrous, smooth, 
except for the two dorsal rows of spinules, thinly crustaceous, 
sub-globosely oblong. Seeds oblong, mottled. Endosperm fleshy ; 
cotyledons broad. (Trimen and J. D. Hooker.) 
Uses : — The juice of the plant in wine is used as an astrin- 
gent ; a ylirita of the plant is considered to be tonic, and is ap- 
plied to the head in vertigo. ( Pharinacojr . hid. 111. 31b.) 
N. O. URTICACEiE. 
1166. Ualoptela integrif olia, Planzh., h.f.b.l, v. 
481. 
Vera . : — Papri (11.); Vavala (Mar.), Aya (Tam.); ISavili 
(Tel.) ; Rasbija (Can.). 
Habitat Outer* lower ranges of the Himalaya, from Jammu 
to Oudh, ascending to 2,000ft. From Banda and Bihar to Tra- 
vancore. 
A large, spreading deciduous tree. Bark -g-iu. thick, whitish- 
grey, exfoliating in long irregular flakes, soft, with an offensive 
smell when fresh, like the leaves and branchlets. Wood light, 
