894 INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS.
beneath. Peduncles usually close below the leaves, short. Racemes densely stellately woolly and with needle-like hairs, not prickly. Flowers large, white. Calyx shortly funnel-shaped, shaggy, with long stellate hair, slightly enlarged in fruit ; seg- ments ovate-acute iin., not acuminate. Corolla white, large, ljin. diam., very hairy outside; lobes ovate-oblong, acute, -f-lin. long. Ovary hirsute. Berry yellow, globose l-ljin. diam.; densely clothed with needle-like hairs, i-|in. fulvous, spreading. Fruit pedicels J-lin. . Calyx-lobes in fruit unaltered, hardly i the length of the berry ; base of the Calyx in fruit very densely clothed with long, yellow, bristly hair. Seeds -§-in. diam., nearly smooth.
Use : — The berries are used medicinally by the natives, but are not considered of much value (Watt).
858. S. indieum, Linn.> h.f.b.i., iv. 234; Roxb. 191.
Sans. : — Vrihati.
Vern. : — Barhanta (H.) ; Byakura (B.) ; M ulli, papparamulli (Tarn.) ; Kuk-machi (Tel.) ; Cheru-chunta (Mai.) ; Ringani, dorli (Bomb.) ; Kandyari (Panj.).
Habitat : — Very common throughout tropical India.
An erect under shrub, l-6ft., much- branched, very prickly ; prickles compressed, stout, often recurved. Leaves ovate-sinuate or lobed, 3-6 by l-4in., subentire or pinnatifid, stellately woolly beneath, nerves prickly. Petiole iin. Peduncles short, often extra-axillary, pedicels i-Jin., stellately woolly. Racemes many- fid. Flowers blue. Calyx lobes in flower -§-in., triangular, acute, very woolly, unarmed or with slender, straight spines, Corolla -f-lin., broadly triangular, tomentose without. Ovary usually glabrous ; style stellately pubescent. Berry yellow, |in. diam., globose, much exceeding the woolly, patent, triangular, oblong Calyx lobes; prickles of the lobes often strengthened in fruit. Seeds |in. diam. and upwards, smooth or very nearly so.
Parts used : — The root ; leaves.
Uses -.—" The root constitutes an igredient of Dasamula,
