1270 
INDIAN MEDICINAL PUNTS. 
The gum obtained from the unripe plantain mixed with rice 
water is used in diarrhoea. In the Punjab, the sap of the fresh 
stem is largely used in nervous affections, viz., hysteria, epilepsy, 
etc. (B. D. Basu.) The ashes of the stem are useful in intesti- 
nal worms. 
N. 0. HAEMODORACEiE. 
1254. Sansevicria Roxburghiana, Schult., H.F.^.i., 
vi. , 271. 
Syn.— S. Zeylanica Willd. ltoxb. 294. 
Habitat : — Coromandel coast. “ I suspect that it is the 
only species indigenous to India and is confined to the Western 
Peninsula and Ceylon, wild or cultivated.” (J. D. Hooter, in 
FI. Br. 1. vi. 271.) 
Sans. : — Mfirva. 
Vern. : — Mnrahri, Marul (H.1; Murba, Gorachakra (B.) ; Gha- 
n asphan, Marvel (M.) ; Murvel (Guz.) ; Marti t Kalang (Tam.'; 
Ishaura-koda-udr (Tel.) ; Katu-kapel (Mai.) ; Hegg.urutike (Kan.). 
Hoot-stock veiy stout, branching stoloniferous ; stem very 
short ; leaves about 8 or 9in. a tuft, 2J-3ft. by lin. towards 
the middle, sub-erect, dagger-shaped, rigid, pale-green, with 
transverse bands of dark green, concave above, and striate, 
dorsally rounded, Jin. thick from back to front, margins thin, 
reddish, terminated by a terete, acute, rigid, spiniform, green 
tip, l-2in. long. Scape a foot long, cylindric, green or pale- 
purple, with a few linear, acuminate bracts, l-2in., long. Raceme 
l-2ft. long by lj-2in. diam., striate, erect, cylindric. Flowers 
in fascicles of 3-0, sub-erect, very shortly pedicelled, sweet- 
scented ; bracts very minute, ovate, acute, pale-green ; perianth 
pale, greenish-white tinged with violet, tube Jin., long, cylindric, 
lobes about as long as the tube, linear-oblong, obtuse, revolute ; 
lips purplish ; stamens erect ; filaments as long as the perianth 
lobes ; anthers oblong, versatile, ovary trigonous, 3-lobed, 
lobes pitted at the top ; style fliform, exserted ; stigma 
minute. Fruit sparingly produced, globose, Jin. diam., of one 
