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1021. Eremostachys Vicaryi, Benth., h.f.b.l, iv. 695.
Vern : — Gurgunna ; Khalátra ; Rewand chini (Pb.).
Habitat :— Western Punjab, Peshawar, Salt Range, and Jhelum.
Erect herbs, stems 3-5ft, very stout, simple or branched. Leaves radical, 12-18in., ovate, pinnatisect; segments or pinnules sessile-glabrous, lower floral sessile oblong, lobulate, petiole strong, base woolly. Spikes 8-lOim, rachis very stout. Whorls many-fid, at length distant. Calyx, ½in., campanulate, scurfily tomentose, mouth truncate, shortly 5-crenate, crenatures apiculate ; galea of Corolla, says J. D. Hooker, villous and fringed with white hairs.
Use : — The seeds are given as a cooling medicine. (Stewart).
1022. Ajuga bracteosa, Wall, h.f.b.i., iv. 702.
Vern.:— Kauri búti (Jhelum); Karku, nilkanthi (Sutlej); Khurbani (Trans-Indus). The bazar names are Jân-i-adam, mukund babri, nilkanthi. Mr Baden-Powell gives jan-i-adam as the vernacular of Ajuga reptans, a European species, and Stewart further gives that name to Salvia lanata.
Habitat : — Western Himalaya, from Kashmir to Nepal, and in the plains near them from Oudh to Peshawar.
Softly hairy herbs. Stems erect or ascending, many from the rootstock, branching usually diffusely from the base, 4-12in., simple or divided, usually stout, leafy, softly pubescent, villous or glabrate, rarely substrigose or hispid. Branches terete or ascending. Leaves l-4in. ; lower petioled, upper sessile, sinuate-toothed or nearly entire, oblanceolate or sub-spathulate, whorls axillary and crowded in spikes, much shorter than the leafy ovate or cuneate-obovate, entire or toothed bracts. Calyx 1/6in. villous ; Calyx-teeth ovate-lanceolate. Corolla pale blue or lilac, pubescent ; tube rarely twice as long as the Calyx ; upper lip erect, 2-fid ; side lobes or lower oblong, midlobe dilated, variable in length, stamens protruding from the upper lip. Nutlets 1/10in., ellipsoid, deeply rugosely fitted.
Uses : —Jan-i-adam is described as a bitter astringent, nearly