N. 0. .SCITAIMNE.E. 
1265 
SoogQndaraju gida, kelahii, hddingana (Kan.) ; Kullvalei-mani, 
kunda-mani clicddi (Tara.) ; Krishna-tamarah, gnri genza cliettn 
(Tel.) ; KatfivAra (Mai.). 
Eng. ■ — Indian shot. 
Habitat Cultivated in gardens all over Tndia as ornamental 
and flowering plants. 
Root-stock stout, perennial, tuberous, with many fibres. Stem 
3-4ft. Leaves 6-18 by 4-8in., lanceolate to ovate, oval or almost 
orbicular, caudate-acuminate ; veins arching, sheath open above, 
margins membranous. Lower leaf 1ft. or more. Raceme with 
a pedicle 1ft. or more, erect; peduncles with along narrow 
sheath about the middle ; bracts 4in. oblong, ovate, obtuse, 
membranous, green. Flowers rather distant 2-2Jin. long. 
Calyx segments £-£in., lanceolate or oblong, membranous, 
obtuse. Corolla-segments lin., erect, narrow, oblanceolate, 
acuminate, greenish or coloured. Staminal segments longer 
than the corolla, 3 sub-erect, spathulate, 1 linear, revolute. 
Fruit erect, 4-lin. long, sub-globose or oblong, obscurely 3-lobed, 
crowned with calyx segments, pericarp echinulate, black, thin ; 
seeds very many, pea-sized, globose ; testa crustaceous, black, 
shining. (Trimen and J. G. Baker.) 
Uses : -The root is used as a diaphoretic and diuretic in 
fevers and dropsy (Atkinson), and also given as a demulcent. 
(Irvine:) It is considered acrid and stimulant. (Fleming.) 
When cattle have eaten any poisonous grass, which is generally 
discovered by the swelling of the abdomen, the natives admin- 
ister to them the stock of this plant, which they break up into 
small pieces, boil in rice-water with popper, and give the cattle 
to drink. (Drury.) The seed is cordial and vulnerary. (Baden- 
Powell.) 
1253. Mum sapientum, Linn., ti.f.b.i., vi., 262. 
Roxb. 222. 
Sans . Kadali ; Rambhl Dirghapatra, Vrisapuapa. 
Fern. : — KelA (FI. ) ; Kola (B.) ; KolpakA (As.) ; Kewiro 
(Sind.); Mouz, kel(Mar.); Vazhaip pazham, valai (Tam.); Arati, 
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