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Rh A small, much-branched tree. Young shoots and inflorescence pubescent. Bark grey, inner-bark fibrous. Wood soft, grey, heartwood purplish. Leaves entire from a cordate base, nearly orbicular, shortly grey-pubescent ; blade 3-8 in. diam. Petiole 1-5 in. long. Stipules broad, early deciduous. Flowers in axillary or terminal few-fid racemes. Bracteoles 10, connate, half the length of the Calyx. Corolla 2-3 in. diam., pale yellow, with a crimson centre, red in the evening. Staminal-tube 1½ in., antheriferous all the way down. Capsule 10-celled, ovoid, pointed above, 5-valved. Seeds slightly pilose, reniform.

Parts used :— The bark and root.

Use :— The bark is used in medicine (Watt). The root is said by Irvine in his Materia Medica of Patna to be febrifuge, and employed in the preparation of embrocations.

Sans. : — Japâ.

Vern. : — Joba, juva, oru (B). ; Jasoon or jasund (H. and Dec); shappathup-pu, (Tam.) ; java-push-pamu (Tel.) ; Dâsvâlada- huvvu (Can.) ; jâsût-nû-phûl (Guz) ; Jâsvan (Mar).

Pers. : — Angharee-hind.

Habitat: — Cultivated in gardens throughout India. I have seen 12 varieties in the Bombay gardens with cream-coloured, fawn-coloured, white and scarlet-blotched, pink, deep crimson, scarlet, with double and single-petalled flowers. It serves as a good roadside plant in Bombay. K. R. K.

A shrubby perennial plant, cultivated in gardens. Stems woody, branched, not prickly. Leaves entire at base, coarsely toothed at apex, nearly glabrous, ovate, acuminate. Stipules ensiform. Bracteoles 6-7, linear, half the length of the bell-shaped Calyx. Peduncles axillary, solitary, as long as or longer than the adjoining leaf. Sepals f in. ; lanceolate, connate below the middle. Corolla 3 in. diam., variously coloured with a deep purple or black blotch inside, near insertion or base of petals. Staminal- tube exceeding Corolla. Capsule roundish, many-seeded.