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INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 
Stem 6 — 20 ft., erect from a stout rootstocks, 1 in, diam., 
spongy within, internodes 6 — 12 in., terete, smooth, uppermost 
glabrous under the panicle ; 1. 3—5 ft. by 1 — 2 in. below the 
middle, tapering thence upwards to a long filiform point, and 
slightly downwards to the base, coriaceous, smooth on both 
surfaces, glaucous beneath, margins spinulose, midrib up to 
\ in. broad, shining, veins many, very slender, sheaths terete, 
coriaceous, mouth not auricled, sides bearded, ligule short, 
lunate, hairy ; panicle 1 — 2 ft., dense-fld., ovoid or oblong, 
erect, decompound, rhachis stout, glabrous, branches half 
whorled, spreading in fi. ascending in fr., filiform ; spikes 
1 — 3 in., rhachis filiform, fragile, internodes 5 — 1 in., villous, 
tips obconic ; spikelets tIj in., clothed with long, soft, creamy 
or purplish woolly hairs up to £ in., long, callus very short ; 
glume I oblong-ovate, acuminate, dorsally convex, margins 
incurved, 1 -veined in the flexures, II lanceolate, acuminate, 
1 — 3-veiired, margins above the middle and keel ciliate with 
long hairs, III oblong, hyaline, obtuse, 1-veined, margin above 
shortly ciliate, IV smaller, lancoiate, subaristately acuminate, 
margins ciliate above, palea quadrate, ciliate ; lodicules irre- 
gular in shape ; anthers 20 in. (Trimen.) 
Uses : — The root is officinal in the Panjab, under the name of 
garba ganda. It is burned near women after delivery, and near 
burns and scalds, its smoke being considered beneficial. (Stewart.) 
1336. Manisuris granularis, Linn., h.f.b.i. vii. 
159. 
Sans : — Palangini (Ainslie). 
Vern : — Trinpali (H) ; Kangni (Ajmere) ; Dhaturoghas 
(Udaipur) ; Agimali-gadi (Chanda) ; Ratop (Berar). 
Habitat : — Throughout the hotter parts of India. 
Annual, erect, much branched grass. Stems 4-30 in. high, 
slender, compressed softly hairy, leafy ; nodes hairy. Leaves 
11 8 by i-iiu., linear-lanceolate, acute or acuminate, flat, hairy 
on both surfaces or on the lower only with bulbous-based 
hairs, margins ciliate, base cordate ; sheaths much shorter 
