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Use. — The root is given in cough, and the seeds are used as an emetic. The leaves are a medicine for guinea-worm and itch, and in the form of poultice applied to wounds. At Lahore, the seeds are given in colic and dysentery, and are applied to boils (Stewart) The seeds are given for hæmorrhoids (Bellew).
999. S. lanata, Roxb., h.f.b.l, iv. 654.
Habitat : — Western Himalaya, at altitudes from 5,000 to 8,000 feet,
Robust erect herbs, softly densely wooly, white tomentose. Stems usually many from the root ; 1-1½ft. simple or branched. Leaves mostly radical, sessile oblong-lanceolate 3-6 by ¾-1½in. toothed ; upper surface tomentose or nearly glabrous, closely wrinkled ; lower tomentose. Flowers ¾in. long, blue-grey in distant whorls; bracts viscidly hairy, large orbicular ; abruptly pointed. Calyx viscidly hairy, bell-shaped ; teeth spinous : upper lip 3-toothed. Corolla-tube not longer than the Calyx ; upper lip long, curved, flattened concave (Collett). Nutlets 1/10in., brown (J. D. Hooker).
Use : — According to Stewart, this species is often confused with S. Moorcroftiana. It may be used separately, or as an adulterant.
1000. S. plebeia, Br., h.f.b.l, iv. 655.
Syn. — S. brachiata, Roxb., 49.
Vern. — Sathi, samúndarsok (Pb.) ; Kinro (Sind.) ; Koka- buradi, bhû-tulsi (B ). The seeds called Kammar-kas (Bomb)
Habitat. — Throughout India, in the plains, and ascending the hills to 5,000 feet.
An annual roughly pubescent herb. Stem stout erect hoary or scaberulous, 6-18in. ; fastigiately branched. Inflorescence glandular. Leaves petioled, oblong obtuse, or upper ovate acute crenate ; l-3in., narrowed at both ends ; floral small lanceolate. Spikes panicled, often fastigiate. Flowers hardly ¼in. long, lilac or nearly white, in small whorls in numerous slender panicled racemes ; bracts small, lower leaf-like, upper lanceolate (Collett). Whorls very numerous. Calyx pedicelled ⅛in.,