The leaves boiled in a little castor oil, said to relieve pain of scorpion bite or bee-stings, also the bite of mad-dogs. For cleansing and healing ulcers also of service (Murray, 171).
819. H. undulatum, Vahl. h.f.b.l, iv. 150.
Vern. : — Pipat-buti ; Jate misák (Pb.).
Habitat ;: — Frequent in the Punjab, Scinde and Upper Gangetic Plain.
Sub-erect, 6-24in., branched, harsh, scabrous, Leaves ½-1½in., often rugose, obscurely petioled, lanceolate, bristly, margins crenulate. Spikes rigid, branches short. Flowers sessile, ebracteate. Sepals 1/16in, oblong, scabrous, rigid, persistent, after the nutlets have fallen. Corolla-tube ⅛in., tubular, scabrous without ; lobes very small, ovate. Nutlets 4, 1/12in. verrucose, hispid or bristly.
Use:— Given after snake-bite, while tobacco-oil is locally applied to the bite itself (Stewart).
820. H. strigosum; Willd, h.f.b.i., iv. 151.
Habitat :— Throughout India.
Herbs usually procunbent, intricately branched. Leaves ⅔ by 1/10in., small, linear- lanceolate. Spikes mostly elongate. Upper flowers, sessile, not conspicuously bracteate ; lower flowers of the spike often pedicelled, with larger bracts. Sepals 1/12in. ovate-lanceolate. Corolla tubular, throat not hairy. Stamens 5, on the Corolla-tube included, filaments very short. Stigma ovate, linear. Fruit 1/16-1/12in. long and broad ; ovoid, not or obscurely 4-lobed, with minute grey hairs, depressed conical at apex.
821. H. brevifolium, Wall, h.f.b.i., iv. 151.
(Reduced to a Var. of H. strigosum in Hooker's Fl. Br. Ind.)
Vern. :— Safed-bhangra, Chiti phúl (H.); Kharai, Tindu, Gorakh pámo (Pb.).
Habitat : — Throughout India, even more abundant than H. strigorum type.
Differs from H. strigosum by its shorter leaves. Leaves ¼ by 1/12in., narrowly lanceolate.
