764 INDIAN MEDICINAL PLNTS.
A scandent shrub, stems glabrous ; twigs minutely pubescent or almost villous. Leaves very variable on the same plant, simple, numerous, small, usually i-2in., but at times attaining 3Jin. Ovate-oval or oval-lanceolate, rounded at base, sometimes alternate, acute or obtuse at apex, glabrous. Flowers variable in size, white, on long slender peduncles, solitary or more usual- ly in threes, at ends of short lateral divaricate twigs ; Calyx glabrous ; segments distant, short, i-g-in., filiform, acute ; Corolla- tube about fin. ; lobes 7 or 8, equalling the tube, linear oblong, very acute, ripe carpel, about fin. by £in. broadly-ovoid, un- symmetrical, both usually developed.
Use : — The bitter root, ground small and mixed with pow- dered vassumboo (root of Acorus Calaums) and lime-juice, is considered a valuable external application in cases of ring- worm (Ainslie).
736. J. humile, Linn., h.f.b.l, hi. 602.
Syn. : — J. chrysanthemum, Roxb. 33; J. revolutum, Sims. Sans. : — Hemapushpika.
Vern. : — Chamba, juari, tsonu, tsuman, summan, kuja (Pb.) ; Sonajahi (Kumaun) ; Swarna-jui (B.) ; Malto, Pitmalti (H.) ; Pachcha adavi molla (Tel.).
Habitat: — Hills of India; Himalaya, from Kashmir to Bhutan ; Abu. Hills of South India, common in the Nilgiris. Hills of Ceylon.
A small, erect, rigid, wholly glabrous shrub. Bark thin, grey. Wood white, moderately hard-grained. Branches angular, green, glabrous. A handsome shrub, with fragrant yellow flowers. Leaves alternate imparipinnate, rachis 1-1 Jin. ; leaflets 5 (2 pair and an end one) (Trimen and Kanjilal), 2-3 by T 7 -l£in., variable in size, lanceolate-oval, oblong or ovate, very variable, glabrous. Flowers dimorphic, |-f in. long, 1-3 together, terminal or leaf- opposed, in short terminal, compound, corymbose cymes. Pedi- cels |in., drooping, thickened below flower. Calyx glabrous, segments short, triangular, acute. Corolla about lin., tube funnel- shaped, lobes 5, short, recurved, rotundate. Fruit didymous. Ripe berries globose or ellipsoid, pulpy, fin.
