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acid and phloroglucinol (?). Scutellarin and scutellarin both appear to be flavone derivatives. (J. Ch. S. 1902 A. I. 48.)

Vern. : — Gúmâ (Patna).

An annual herb, 2-6 ft. high, glabrous or more or less pubescent. Stems bluntly 4-angled, sulcate. Leaves 1½-4 in. long, palmatipartite ; segments linear, incised, glabrous or nearly so on the upper surface, pale beneath and more or lese pubescent on the prominent nerves, petioles up to 2in. long. Floral leaves of upper whorls usually entire ; bracts 1/5in. long, spinescent. Calyx ¼-⅓in. long, glabrous or slightly pubescent; teeth triangular, spine-tipped. Corolla red, up to ½in. long ; tube as long as the limb, annulate within ; upper lip hooded, hairy ; lower equaling the upper, the 2 lateral lobes rounded. Nutlets 1/10in. long, (Duthie.)

Habitat: — Plains of India, from Bengal and Sylhet to Coorg.

Use : — The root, leaves and juice are bitter and used as a febrifuge. Dose 2 drachms to 2 ounces in infusion, price 1 anna per pound (Irvine).

Syn. : — Phlomis calycina, Roxb. 462.

Vern. :— Patkaran (H.) ; Tit-patti, kauri (Kumaon) ; Kaur, kauri (Pb}.

Habitat : — Sub-tropical Western Himalaya, from Kashmir to Kumaon.

A tall hoary woody undershrub, much-branched, 3-5 ft. high. Branches slender terete, finely tomentose. Bark grey. Wood hard white. Leaves opposite, l-2in., long, ovate, crenately toothed, tomentose beneath, base cuneate, Petiole ¼-¼in. Flowers in 6-10 flowered axillary whorls ; Calyx 5-lobed, 10-ribbed, rigid ; Fruiting Calyx ½-⅔in., tube deeply ribbed, lobes as long. Corolla-tube narrow, ½in., white or pinkish 2-lipped ; upper lip erect, lower spreading. Stamens 4 ascending ; Stigma sub-equally 2-lipped. Nutlets ⅛in. long, obovoid oblong, smooth. The plant has the odour of lemons.