N. C. COMMEMNACFjE. 
1307 
The authors of the Pharmaengraplna Iudica (III. 509), speaking of C. Bengal- 
I’lisis, Linn, write : — “ This and several other species of Oommelina are 
included under tho Sanskrit name Kanchata * * * The. stems, roots and 
seeds which contain much mucilage and starch are used on account of their 
itomulcent properties. 
1292 . C. sujfruticosa, Blume., h . f . b . i ./ vi ., 374 . 
Vevn. : — Dare orsa (Sarital). 
Habitat : — Tropical India, from Nepal, Sikkim and Bengal 
to Central India. 
An annual brandling herb, usually slender and creeping 
below. Stems stout, branched, nearly glabrous. Leaves 3-14in. 
by -£-2in., acuminate, sessile, lanceolate, scabridly pubescent ; 
sheaths auricled. Spathes J-Jin. long and broad, small, shortly 
peduncled, broadly ovate, cordate between, cucullate and com- 
plicate, panicled or clustered, acute or obtuse, villous. RSceme 
simple, 6-1 2-fid. Petals white or blue. Seeds straw-coloured, 
puberulous, ellipsoid, rugose. Capsules 2-eelled. 
Use : — The root is applied by Santals to sores. (Campbell.) 
1293 . Aneilema scapiflorum, Wight , h.f.b.i., 
vi., 375 . 
Syn. : — Coinmelina scapiflora, Roxb. 59. 
Vern. : — Siyah mflsll (Hind.) ; Kureli (B ); Sis-mulia (Guj.). 
Hahitat : — Temperate and Tropical Himalaya, from the Upper 
Gangetic plain, eastwards to Bhutan, Travancore and Tenasserim. 
Simple herbs. Roots of elongated tubers. Leaves all radical, 
4-tOin., erect, finely acuminate, narrowly ensiform. Scape 
erect, with narrow, strict, elongate panicle 8-lSin. Bracts large, 
sheathing, lower ones long, upper small, amplixicaul. Flowers 
small. Capsule ellipsoid, trigonous, Jin., mueronate. Seeds in a 
triangular column, angled, straw-coloured, with a white, minutely 
reticulate and glandular epidermis, 3-0 — superposed in each 
cell. (J. D. Hooker). . 
Uses : — Said to have ^ast ringent and tonic properties, and 
considered to be hot and dry ; useful in headache, giddiness, 
