of re-appearing in Manipur while it nowhere occurs in the vast expanse of the tableland of India that lies between the Deccan and Manipur."
An erect herb, softly villous, with spreading hairs. Stem 4-angled. Leaves sometimes 9 inches long, membranous, long-petioled, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, sinuate or cut and toothed or crenate, base narrowly cuneate. Whorls dense- fid globose, secund, continuous or separate, in long peduncled hirsute spikes sometimes 9in. long. Bracts narrow, falcate, equalling the Calyx, ciliate. Calyx 1/5in. long, tubular, teeth long, subulate, ciliate. Corolla white, with purple upper lip (probably a form of P. arviflora (J. D. Hooker).
Use. — Used like P. parviflorus. It seems more likely than either P. plectranthoides or P. parviflorus to be used medicinally (Watt).
979. P. parviflorus, Benth., h.f.b.i., iv. 632.
Vern. : — Phángla, pángla (Bomb.).
Habitat : — Subtropical Himalaya, from Kumaon to Bhotan. Assam, Khasia Hills, and Silhet, Chittagong. West Deccan Peninsula, from the Concan to the Anamallay.
An annual herb, stout erect, branched, glabrous pubescent or scaberulous. Leaves long-petioled, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, singly or doubly crenate-toothed or serrate, base cuneate. Whorls dense-fid, subglobose in dense cylindric or one-sided softly hairy spikes. Bracts elliptic ovate, exceeding the hirsute calyx. Calyx 1/6in. long narrow, usually purplish. Calyx- teeth short, triangular-lanceolate, ciliate. The stem and branches are usually dark-purple, but not constantly.
Uses : — The fresh leaves, when bruised, are applied as a cataplasm in order to clean wounds and promote healthy granulation. The roots are reputed to be a remedy for the bite of the Phursa snake (Echis Carinata) (Dymock). In Satara, the juice of the leaves is given in colic and fever (B. D. Basu).
Surg.-Maj. J. Parker, Med. Store-keeper to Gov., Bombay, in his letter dated 21st April 1890, to the Sec, Indigen. Drugs Com., Calcutta wrote : —
The root juice is used internally and externally in snake-bite (Phursa), but the plant is said to be efficacious in the fresh state only. It would be well to
