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INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 
Stem 6-12ft. long, tapering, hollow. Leaves 12-18in. long, 
broadly ovate-cordate. Flowers 5-7in. diam., drooping, frag- 
rant ; buds linear-oblong, 3-4in. long. Anthers fin. long, 
versatile, yellow. Capsule 3in. ; septa feathered. (Kanjilal). 
Uses: — The leaves are employed as an external cooling 
application to alleviate the pains of wounds and bruises. 
1286. L. Wallichianum, Schultes fil., H.F.B.I., 
vi., 349. 
Vern. Findora (H.). 
Habitat: — Western Himalaya, Nepal and Kumaon. 
Bulbous herbs ; stems leafy, erect, unbranched. Bulbs of 
narrow, fleshy, imbricating scales, without any other coats, small, 
on a creeping root- stock ; scales many, short, ovate, acuminate. 
Stem 3-6ft. ; base ascending, few-fid. Leaves sessile 6-12 by 
J-fin., lanceolate, narrowly linear, nerves 3-5 faint. Flowers 
sub-solitary, horizontal, sweet-scented, white or greenish-white ; 
pedicel long ; perianth 6-10in., narrowly tubular below, then 
infundibular, with the upper third curved ; tube greenish out- 
side ; segments sub-equal, oblanceolate, 2in. broad. Stamens 
not diverging, much shorter than the perianth ; anthers lin., 
orange-yellow. Style recurved at the top ; stigma conoidal, 
capitate, obscurely 3-lobed. Capsule lf-2in. 
Uses : — The dried bulb scales possess demulcent properties 
and are used like salep in pectoral complaints. (Atkinson.) 
1287. Colchicum luteum, Baker, h.f.b.i., vi., 356. 
Sans. : — Hiranya tutha. (Golden collyrium). 
Vern. : — Hiran tutiya (H.). 
Habitat : — Western Temperate Himalaya ; Kashmir ; Chamba. 
Corn gibbously ovoid, coats dark-brown. Leaves few, 
appearing with the flowers, linear, oblong or oblanceolate, 
obtuse, lorate, short at the flowering time, at fruiting 6-12 by 
f-Jin. ; lip rounded. Flowers 1-2 (in spring), 1-lfin. diam., 
when expanded golden-yellow. Tube 3-4in. ; segments oblong 
or oblanceolate, obtuse, many nerved. Stamens shorter than 
the perianth ; filaments very much shorter than the long, 
