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Rh In the Concan, the plant is smoked along with black datura, tobacco, and ajwân seeds as a remedy for asthma (Dymock).

The infusion has a diaphoretic action (Surg. Barren, in Watt's Dictionary).

Syn. : — Doodia picta, Roxb. 582.

Vern. :— Dâbrâ (H.) ; Sankar-jata (B.) ; Deterdâne (Pb.) ; Prisniparni (Mar.) ; Pitavan, pitvan (Guz.).

Habitat : — From the Himalayas throughout India.

An erect, little-branched, suffruticose perennial, 3-6ft. high. Stems robust, finely, downy. Petiole l-2in. Leaves stipulate ; upper leaves 5-9-foliate. Leaflets 4-6, rarely 9, rigidly subcoriaceous, glabrous above, reticulato-venulose, minutely pubescent below, 4-8in. long, ¼-1in. broad ; lowest simple, round or oblong. Flowers in dense cylindrical racemes, ⅓-1ft. long, ⅝-⅜in. broad. Bracts brown, scariose, deciduous, not distinctly ciliated ; upper lanceolate, lower acuminate, ovate ; pedicels ¼-⅜in., abruptly recurved at the tip after flowering. Corolla purple, slightly exserted. Joints 3-6, glabrescent, polished, often whitish.

Use : — In Bombay, the plant is supposed to be an antidote to the poison of the phûrsa snake (Echis Carinata) (Dymock).

The fruit is applied to the sore mouths of children (Stewart).

Syn. : — Doodia lagopodioides, Roxb. 581

Sa7is. : — Prisniparni.

Vern. :— Pitvan (H.) ; Chakulia (B.) ; Dowlâ, (Bomb); Kolaponna (Tel.).

Habitat : — Tropical Zone, Nepal and Bengal.

A suffruticose perennial. Stems densely cæspitose, woody, slender, pubescent, trailing. Petiole ½-1in. Leaves 1-and 3- foliate, intermixed. Leaflets many, of both kinds, obtuse, rounded at the base, l-2in. long, glabrous above, finely downy