the root slender and leafy, rarely solitary with only radical leaves. Leaves petioled linear-oblong pinnatifid or pinnatisect, lobes many, short, crenulate, flowers axillary and in terminal racemes or heads, calyx-lobes crested, corolla pink, tube very slender 3-6 times as long as the calyx, upper lip a slender annular horn gradually narrowed from the base to the point, lower broadly 3-lobed.
Rootstock perennial ? Stems 2-10 in. erect or ascending. Leaves 2-6 by ¼-1½ in., lobes or segments obtuse, cauline and radical alike. Racemes short or long ; bracts leaf-like ; pedicels of the lower flowers sometimes 1 in. Calyx ⅓-½ in., hirsute or glabrate, nerves distinct. Corolla rose-pink, tube very slender, sometimes 2 in. ; upper lip longer than the broad lower. Capsule ½-⅓ in. long, broadly oblong, oblique, acute, half exserted or less. Seeds 1/12-1/10in. oblong, obtuse, base, apiculate, striate. — Varies greatly in the size of the corolla and length of its tube. (J. D. Hooker).
Use : — Some part of this plant is used officinally in the Punjab (Stewart).
N. 0. BIGNONIACEÆ.
900. Oroxylum indicum, Vent. h.f,b.i., iv. 378.
Syn. : — Bignonia indica, Linn. Roxb. 495.
Sans. : — Sheonak (a tree), Pruthusimlic (small kidneybean), Shuka-nâsâ (Acquiline nose), Kutanata (dishonest actor), Bhuta- vriksha (Goblin-tree), Katnanga (bitter bodied), Tutuka (small), Salak (bark), Aralu (a kind of tree), Mayurajangha (peacock- thigh), Bhalluka (bear), Priya-jîva (dear life), Katambhara(filling hips).
Vern. : — Ullu, arlús kharkath, pharkath sauna, assar sauna, shyona (Hind.); Sona, sanpatti, násoná (Beng.) ; Pomponia, phunphuna (Uriya) ; Arengi banu, arengebaung, somepatta (Kol.) ; Bana hatak (Santal.); Soizong (Rajbanshi) ; Kering (Assam ) ; Cherpong (Mechi) ; Totilla, karamkanda (Nepal) ; Dhatte (Gond.) ; Mulin, miringa, sori, tátpalang, tatmorang
