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Rh Uses : — Held in repute in snakebites; also considered diuretic. A cold infusion of the leaves is considered depurative. In the Deccan, the plant is used as an emollient poultice (Watt).

In Chutia Nagpur, the root pounded and made into a paste, is applied to reduce swellings, particularly of the joints (Revd. A. Campbell).

Vern. : — Paburpanee (Sind.)

Habitat : — Punjab and Scinde.

Stem and leaves as of T. indicum, but more harshly hispid, bristly, with hairs springing from the tubercles. Leaves ovate-oblong, lower long-petioled. Racemes mostly lateral, often bipartite and subebracteate. Calyx-lobes ¼in. ; in fruit cordate at the base, ½-⅔in. Corolla-tube 1/5in., lobes ¼in., ovate, acute. Staminal cone laxly hairy at the back. Nutlets 1/6in., margin prominent, glochidiate.

Uses : — Leaves are used as diuretic (Murray).

Vern. : — Hetenuria (H.) ; Tirup-sing (Mandariy).

Habitat :— Bundelkhand. From Chota Nagpur and Bombay to S. India and Ceylon.

An erect annual, 1-2 ft. high. Stems stout, densely pilose, often tinged with purple. Leaves sessile or shortly petioled, 2-4 in. long, lanceolate or oblong, obtuse or acute, upper surface covered with short stiff, bulbous based hairs, finely pubescent beneath. Flowers pale-blue, usually in terminal bracteate panicles, or with a few solitary ones in the upper axils ; pedicels slender pubescent nodding ; bracts leaf-like, Calyx softly pubescent, rounded at the base ; lobes ⅛ in. long ; lanceolate, acute, hairy within, midrib prominent. Corolla- tube 1/5in, long ; lobes obovate, rounded, plicate, with a spirally twisted accuminate apex. Nullets grey when ripe, otherwise resembling those of T. indicum. (Duthie).

Use : — Leaves used as an emollient poultice (Watt).

Vern. :— Gâozabân (Pb.),