N. 0. OYPER4CEJ3. 
1355 
Spikelets often |~yin. apart, sessile, diverging, lanceolate, 
rigid, obtuse. Glumes obtuse, 5-7-nerved. Stamens 2 : — style 
bifid. Nut longer than half the glume, more or less compressed, 
not equilaterally trigonous, obcordate, smooth. 
Uses:— The tubers are used as a tonic and stimulating me- 
iicine. (Irvine.) 
1327. Gyperus scariosus, C. Br. h.f.b.i., vi. 612. 
Syn. : — C. Pertenuis, Roxb. 06. 
Sans. : — Nagar-mustaka. 
Vern. : — Nagar-motha ^H.) ; Nagar-mutha (B.); Nagar-motha 
(Dec.); Muttah-kach (Tam.) ; Tungo-gaddala vim (Tel.) ; Vomon- 
niu (Burin.); Lavvala (Mar.) ; Kora-kizhanna (Mai.); Konuari- 
gadde (Kan.) ; Soadekafi (Arab.) ; Mushki zamen (Pers.). 
Habitat: — Bengal, Pegu. Common in Sunderban. 
Tall, glabrous, stolons slender, \-2 by T Vn., clothed by 
elliptic acute lax striate concolorous scales yin. long. Stems 
16-36ip. long ; at top y 1 -rgin. in diam. slender; triquetrous. 
Leaves variable, usually short (less than | stem), sometimes 
much longer, sometimes 0, narrow, weak. Umbel thin ; rays 
slender, sometimes up to 3 n. long, sometimes not ^in.; contract- 
ed. Bracts nearly always as the leaves, i.e., hardly any when 
leaves short, exceeding inflorescence when leaves longish. 
Spikelets linear pale straw colour. (0. B. Clarke.) 
Uses : — The root is officinal, and considered cordial, stomach- 
ic, and desiccant, and is used for washing the hair. Also re- 
garded as diaphoretic and diuretic. The root is given in con- 
junction with Valerian in cases of epilepsy. The root is as- 
tringent, useful in diarrhoea. A decoction is used in gonorrhoea 
and also in syphilitic affections. (Dr. Peacock in Watt’s DicA 
In the Concan, Nagarmoth, Solanum indicum Tinospora 
cordifolia, Ginger and Etnbelic myrobalans, of each 2 tolas, are 
powdered and divided into 5 parts, and one part taken daily 
in decoction with a little honey and long pepper as a febrifuge. 
In dysentry, Nagarmoth, • Mocharas, Lodhra, Daitiphul (Wood- 
fordia jioribunda flowers), unripe Bael fruit, and the seeds of 
