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176 they yield to hot water. Their decoction is therefore useful as a fomentation to painful parts. The seeds have a distinct control over gonorrhœa, gleet, and chronic cystitis (Moodeen Sheriff),

The juice of leaves about one tola, and ghee one tola, are given in catarrhal bilious diarrhœa. K.R.K.

Vern. : — Barkanghi, bara banghi (Cawnpore). Vaddâttutti. (Tam.)

Habitat : — United Provinces, Sindh, Nilgherries, Baluchistan, Central Provinces, Ceylon waste ground.

An herbaceous annual, branches covered with clammy pubescence, mixed with spreading hairs. Leaves sometimes lobed, orbicular-cordate, abruptly acuminate, velvety on both sides. Petiole almost as long as the blade ; stipules linear ; reflexed (falcate). Peduncles as long as the petioles. Trimen says that the flowers in Ceylon are yellowish, becoming pink when withering. Flowers large, orange coloured, with a darker centre, ultimately reflexed. Sepals ovate, acuminate ; petals obcordate. Carpels 20 or more, truncate or rounded, hairy ; rather longer than the Calyx, not awned.

Use : — In his Flora of the Upper Gangetic plain (p. 83), Duthie writes that the roots, leaves and seeds are medicinal. The fresh plant has often a strong and unpleasant smell. Trimen says about the same plant growing in Ceylon:— "I do not notice any scent in the Ceylon plant." The uses are the same as those of A. indicum.

Syn. : - Sida abutilon, Linn. (Sanskrit) Jayâ, Jayanti — J. Indraji.

Eng, : — The Indian Mallow or American Jute. Vern. : — (Gujrat and Porebunder) Nâhani Khapât, Bhonya Kâski, Bhonya-Khapât.

Habitat : — North-west India, Sindh, Kashmir and Bengal.