N. 0. AROIDE.B. 
1329 
N. 0. TYPHACEiE. 
1305. Typha elephantina, Roxb. H.F.B.I., VI., 
489 ; Roxb. 648. 
Syn : — Typha angustifolia, Linn. 
Sa?i8 : — Eraka. 
Vern : — Pater R&mab&na, (H.) ; Hogla (B.) ; Bora (Kumaon) ; 
Kiludar, dib, dab, pitz, yira, boj, lflkh, patira gond, pan, 
borl (Pb.); Pitz, yira (Kash.) ; Pun, pollen = bfir, bfirl (Sind) ; 
Ramb&na (Mar.) ; Ghabajarin (Guz.) ; Jammu gaddi, emiga- 
junum (Tel.). 
Habitat : — Marshes from N.-W. India to Assam and 
southward, very common in Bombay marshes along the B. B. & 
C. T. Railway, between Mahim and Dadar. In the Thana District 
abundant at Bhiwandi and in Banganga River on the way to 
Chinchan Tarapur. <K. R. Kirtikar.) 
Annual marsh herbs. Stems 6- 12ft. Leaves erect 
spongy, 1-1 £in. broad, trigonous above the sheath, margins 
often undulate above the middle. Flowers bracteolate. Male 
spike 8-12in. rachis clothed with short, often forked hairs, 
bracts 3 or more, anthers, 1-5, I’sin. long. Pollen 4-globate. 
Female spike much shorter 6-10 by ^-lin. diam. Flowers 
mixed with clarate pistillodes, bracteoles with fasciate tips 
much longer than the hairs, which are shorter than the stigmas. 
Stigmas lanceolate (J. D. H.) 
Uses : — The down of the ripe fruit is used as an application 
to wounds and ulcers, which acts in the same way as the 
medicated cotton wool. 
“ The root-stock, which abounds in starch is somewhat 
astringent and diuretic, and is employed in Eastern Asia in 
dysentery, gonorrhoea and measles.” (Mr. Maiden in Ph. J., 1st 
Sep., 1888, p. 180.) 
N. 0. AROIDEiE. 
1306. Gryptocoryne spiralis, Fisch. H.F.B.I., vi. 
494. 
8yn. : — Ambrosinia spiralis, Roxb. 623. 
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