Indian Medicinal Plants/Natural Order Frankeniaceæ

by Kanhoba Ranchoddas Kirtikar and Baman Das Basu

N. 0. FRANKENIACEÆ

115. Frankenia pulverulata, Linn, h.f.b.i, i. 212.

Vern. : — Khareeya (Sindh.)

Habitat : — On the Sea Coast of Sind; also on the salt plains of the Punjab, and probably also in Cutch. An annual herb, slender, prostrate, diffuse, exceedingly branched. Leaves obovate, retuse or hoary beneath, 1/6-¼ in. very shortly petioled. Branches wiry, leafy, 6-18 in. long. Flowers pink, shorter than the leaves. Calyx cylindric, glabrous, strongly ribbed. Petals small.

Use : — Valued by native practitioners in the fresh state for its mucilaginous and aromatic properties; exhibited in the form of decoction in empyreuma (Murray.)

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