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1160 INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS.

Uses : -The ashes of the root are given to children for cough. The leaves are considered depurative. The seeds are used as purgative. (Stewart.) Its value in leprosy is asserted. (Drury.) The Santals mix the root with that of Carissa Carandas for blistering purposes. (Revd. A. Campbell.)

Syn.:—Acalypha betulina, Retz. ; A. amentacea, Roxb. 686.

Vern. : — Chunm maram (TaM.) ; Chinni ; Tsiuni (Tel.); Chinni-ká-jhar (Dec).

Habitat :— Deccan Peninsula.

A low shrub, more or less covered with yellow, waxy glands, strong smelling or fœtid when bruised, very much-branched ; branches slender, virgate, spreading or ascending, glabrous; young parts scurfily pubescent. Leaves alternate, numerous, but rather distant, ¾-2in., oblong or rhomboid-ovate, acute at base, shortly acuminate, coarsely or finely crenate-serrate, glabrous, with small punctiform, orange, scattered glands beneath. Petiole ¼-1¼in., slender. Stipules minute, persistent. Flowers minute, sessile, on strict pedicels in clusters, crowded on short axillary spikes ; male very numerous, with minute bracts. Stamens 8. Female 2 or 3 at base of spikes, each with toothed bracts ; styles 3, split into many filiform segments. Capsule with 3 rounded lobes, densely pubescent ; seeds smooth. (Trimen).

Uses : —Leaves attenuant and alterative and an agreeable stomachic in dyspepsia and other ailments. The dose of the infusion of the leaves as ordered by the Vaidyas in Southern IndIa is half a teacupful twice in the day. (Ainslie.)

{{C1153. A. indica, Linn., h.f.b.l, v. 416 Roxb., 685.}}

Syn. : — A. spicata, Forsk. ; A. ciliata and A. canescens.

Vern. : — Kuppi, khokali (H.) ; Khokli, khájoti (Mar.) ; Vanchhi kánto (Guj.) ; Muktajuri, shet basanta, murkanta (Beng.); Indra-maris (Uriya) ; Kuppaimeni (Tam.); Kuppai- chettu, murkanda-chettu, (Tel.) ; Chalmari, kuppi (Kanara).