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Vern. : — Báns-patá-natiya (B.) ; Máti chulai (Bomb.) ; Lálsâg, chulâi-sâg, labra (Merwara).

Habitat :— Cultivated throughout India.

An erect glabrous annual herb, stout handsome species, much cultivated, 2-3ft., leafy green, pink, rufuse liver-coloured or bright-red. Leaves 2-5in., very variable from linear-lanceolate, to rounded-oval and 3in., diam. or deltoid ovate ; tip rounded or long and slender, but always obtuse and often notched, base elongate cuneate. Petiole equalling the blade. Clusters squarrose, crowded in the lower axils and forming a terminal spike ; bracts 1/6in. long. Bracts awned subulate, equalling or exceeding the 3 lanceolate sepals and utricle. Stamens 3. Utricle circumciss Seeds lenticular, pitch-black, 1/20in. diam., border acute.

Use : — Used as an emollient poultice.

Syn. : — Achyranthes incana, Roxb. 225.

Habitat :-~ From the Oudh Terai to the Punjab, Sindh, and Central India. The Deccan, from the Concan southward.

A semi-shrubby plant. Stem 2-3ft, branched, cylindric, covered with a thick coat of very dense stellate wool which is easily detached. Leaves nearly sessile alternate, l-l½in., linear-oblong or oblong-spathulate, rounded, slightly emarginate or acute, with dense woolly coat like the stem. Flowers white, sessile, uni-sexual, arranged in naked terminal panicles. Bracts large, broadly ovate, acute, papery, veinless. Perianth leaves 5, rather unequal, lanceolate or oval, papery, densely covered outside with long woolly hair, stigmas 2, long. Seed lenticular, black polished (Trimen) ; style elongate ; flowers 1/10 in. (J. D. Hooker.) Male flowers are said to be few.

Syn. : — Achyranthes lanata, Linn. Roxb. 227.

Sans. : — Astmabayda.

Vern. .— Chaya (B.); Bhui (Raj.); Bui, jari (Sind) ; Búi-kallam(Pb); Kul-ke-jar, khul (Duk.) ; Azmei, spirke, sassái