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Rh shorter than the leaves, with a greenish gland on either side of the apex. Peduncles as long as the petioles, usually 7-flowered, bracts lanceolate. Flowers white, fragrant. Sepals about ¾in long, ovate-lanceolate, acute, thick, silky-hairy outside, persistent. Corolla- txbe 2-3 in. long, limb about 2-2½ in. in diam. Berry oblong, pointed, 1 celled. Seeds usually solitary.

The flowers open at sunset and wither on the following morning. The so called R. ornata of S. India is a separate species. A more correct name for this plant of N. India would be R. Roxburghii, Prain. (See Prain in Nov. Ind. viii, 89. (Duthie).

Habitat. — India, from Assam to Belgaum and Mysore. Frequent in Bengal plain.

Uses. — In the Concan, the juice is made with Borneo camphor and butter into an ointment for pityriasis. For piles, one tolâ of the juice, with half a tolâ of Babul pods, and a little sugar, is given in a quarter seer of cow's milk every morning (Pharma- cographia Indica, Vol. II., p. 541).

Syn. :— Lettsomia nervosa, Roxb. 164.

Sans. : — Samudra palaka ; Vriddha-daruka.

Vern. : — Samandar-ká-pat ; Samandar-phen (Hind.); Bich-taraka (Beng.) ; Kaf-darya (Pers.) ; Shamuddi rap-pachchai, (Tam.) ; Samudra shoka (Bomb.) ; Samudra-pála (Tel) ; Samandar-ká-patta (Dec); Samandar-sôf ; Samandar-sokh (H.) ; Guguli (B.) ; Kedok arak (Santal) ; Shamuddirap-pachchai (Tam.) ; Chandra-poda, kokkita, pála-samudra (Tel.) ; Samudra-pach-cha, samudra-zogam, samudra-pala (Mal.).

Habitat : — India, from Assam to Belgaum and Mysore ; frequent in Bengal plains.

A shrub, with a stem climbing, not twining, rather stout, cylindric, fine silky pubescent, with white adpressed hairs. Branchlets stout, white tomentose. Leaves 1½-3in., broadly ovate or reniform, cordate at base, very shortly acuminate, apiculate, glabrous above, more or less densely white, silky