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862 much cuneate at base ; blade l-2in., narrowed into a petiole, ¼in. long. Flowers white or bine, in lax hairy cymes. Corolla-tube twice the length of Calyx ; lobes as long as tube.

Use : — A decoction of the fresh root is used in venereal diseases (Dymock).

Vern. :— Cooruvingie, voyr (Tam.) ; Bapana-búri (Tel.); Paleke-jurr (Dec.) ; Pálé (H.) ; Pâlâ (M.).

Habitat: — Deccan Peninsula, in dry jungles.

A shrub, with stiff branches. Leaves ¼-lin., fasciculate on arrested branchlets, oblanceolate, apex, with a few obtuse teeth, pale beneath, upper side rough, with short stiff hairs standing generally on white disks (cystolith-cells), entire or often 3-lobed at apex, obtuse, attenuated base, subsessile. Peduncles 0-¾ in, hairy, axillary, l-(or fewVflowered. Flowers, says Brand is, " solitary or a few together on slender hair peduncles." Calyx hairy ; lobes ⅓in., lanceolate, linear, spathulate, longer than tube. Corolla ¼-½in. across, white, campanulate ; lobes short, ovate. Filaments very short. Style 2- fid to near the base, or two distinct styles. Drupe globose, ¼-½in. diam., yellow or scarlet when ripe. Stone one, 4-celled (Brandis).

Use : — The root is employed in Southern India by the Hindoo doctors as an alterative, and by the Mahomedan as an antidote to vegetable poison (Ainslie).

Dr. A. E. Ross reports having employed it in the form of decoction, in proportion of two ounces of the root to a pint of water, and that this in doses of two ounces appeared to be decidedly beneficial in secondary and constitutional syphilitic affections (Ph. Ind.).

Sans. : — Tripakshi.

Vern.: — Tirpungkhi, triphunkhi, tripungki (H.) ; Bursha (Sind.) ; Tripakshi (Bomb.) ; Seru-padi, siru-padi (Tarn.) ; Hamsapadu, hama-padi (Tel).