trifoliate, upper few, scattered, linear, ¼-½in. long. Corymb flattish or more rarely elongate. Flowers clear, yellow; the Corolla-tube glabrous. Calyx in fruit often as much as ⅜in. wide, 4-partite, elongate. Corolla, with a flask-shape tube and spreading 4-fid limb, much exceeding the Calyx, persistent. Stamens 8, in two series, adnate to the Corolla-tube, hypogynous scales 4, linear. Carpels 4, adnate to the base of the Corolla-tube, attenuated into long styles ; ovules very many. Follicles 4, seeds very many, oblong, ellipsoid, with 8-15 longitudinal ribs.
Part used: — The leaf.
Use : — It is poisonous to goats, and the leaves are, at Lahore, reckoned a specific for cholera. In Kangra, they are burned and applied to abscesses. (Stewart).
484. Kalanchoe laciniata, DC, h.f.b.l, ii. 415.
Syn. : — Cotyledon lanciniata, Roxb. 388 ; K. teretifolia, Haw.
Sans. :— Hemságara (Sea of Gold).
Vern. : — Tukhmhyát, Parna-bij (Bomb.) ; Mala-kullie (Tam.).
Habitat : — Tropical regions of the Deccan Peninsula, in Bengal, at Patna and Dacca.
A suffruticose, fleshy plant. Leaves opposite, pinnatifid-laciniate, the lobes thick, entire, sub-serrate or dentate. Cymes panicled. Calyx 4-partite, sepals lanceolate, acuminate, spreading. Corolla hypocrateriform ; tube cylindrical ; limb spreading, 4-partite. Carpels 4 ; styles filiform.
There are 3 varieties.
Uses:- The succulent leaves are valued as an application to wounds and sores ; they allay irritation and promote cicatrization. In the Concan, the juice of the leaves is given in bilious diarrhœa and lithiasis. (Dymock).
I can myself speak of their good effects in cleaning ulcers and allaying inflammation (Ainslie).
