Uses : — Held in repute in snakebites; also considered diuretic. A cold infusion of the leaves is considered depurative. In the Deccan, the plant is used as an emollient poultice (Watt).
In Chutia Nagpur, the root pounded and made into a paste, is applied to reduce swellings, particularly of the joints (Revd. A. Campbell).
824. T. africanum, Br. h.f.b.i., iv. 154.
Vern. : — Paburpanee (Sind.)
Habitat : — Punjab and Scinde.
Stem and leaves as of T. indicum, but more harshly hispid, bristly, with hairs springing from the tubercles. Leaves ovate-oblong, lower long-petioled. Racemes mostly lateral, often bipartite and subebracteate. Calyx-lobes ¼in. ; in fruit cordate at the base, ½-⅔in. Corolla-tube 1/5in., lobes ¼in., ovate, acute. Staminal cone laxly hairy at the back. Nutlets 1/6in., margin prominent, glochidiate.
Uses : — Leaves are used as diuretic (Murray).
825. T. zeylanicum, Br. h.f.b.l, iv. 154.
Vern. : — Hetenuria (H.) ; Tirup-sing (Mandariy).
Habitat :— Bundelkhand. From Chota Nagpur and Bombay to S. India and Ceylon.
An erect annual, 1-2 ft. high. Stems stout, densely pilose, often tinged with purple. Leaves sessile or shortly petioled, 2-4 in. long, lanceolate or oblong, obtuse or acute, upper surface covered with short stiff, bulbous based hairs, finely pubescent beneath. Flowers pale-blue, usually in terminal bracteate panicles, or with a few solitary ones in the upper axils ; pedicels slender pubescent nodding ; bracts leaf-like, Calyx softly pubescent, rounded at the base ; lobes ⅛ in. long ; lanceolate, acute, hairy within, midrib prominent. Corolla- tube 1/5in, long ; lobes obovate, rounded, plicate, with a spirally twisted accuminate apex. Nullets grey when ripe, otherwise resembling those of T. indicum. (Duthie).
Use : — Leaves used as an emollient poultice (Watt).
826. Macrotomia Benthami. Dc, h.f.b.l, iv. 177.
Vern. :— Gâozabân (Pb.),
