Chichora (C. P.) ; Kâlâ mewâ., tiari, olâ, kharwine (Pb.) ; Rosagadi mânu (Tel.).
Habitat : — Common throughout India, in the Tropical and Sub-tropical Zone.
Sub-Himalayan tract and outer hills from the Jumna eastward Chutia-Nagpur. Western Peninsula, Burma hills and Ceylon moist regions.
A shrub or small tree, unarmed, 20ft. high ; Trimen says 6-10 ft. Bark grey, smooth. Wood soft, light-yellow (Gamble) The whole plant is covered with a dense yellowish-grey tomentum of scurfy stellate-hairs. Leaves large, 5-9in., lanceolate oval-elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate, rounded or acute at base, acuminate, subacute, tomentum velvety above, very woolly beneath ; petiole ¾-1in., stout. Flowers white or pale-blue, ¾in. across, in compact, dichotomous corymbs. Peduncles 2-4in., stout erect. Calyx cup-shaped, very woolly, segments short, broadly triangular, acute. Corolla woolly without, ½in. diam. ; lobes deep, oval-oblong, subacute. Berry fin. diam., hairy at first, with small scattered stellate hairs, yellow. Calyx enlarged in fruit ; lobes shorter than berry. Seeds minutely dotted.
N. B.— -Wight's figure of this plant (Ic. T. 1398) is not good, says Trimen, Vol III, p. 232 of Fl. Ceylon, Lond 1805.
Use : — It is used medicinally by the natives of India, but its properties are unimportant (Watt.).
857. S. ferox, Linn, h.f.b.i. iv., 233.
Syn. : — S. hirsutum, Roxb. 192.
Vern. : — Râm begoon (B.).
Habitat : — Eastern and Southern India, frequent in the tropical zone ; from Assam to Ceylon and to Tenasserim.
A large herbaceous shrub. Stem stout, very densely covered with long, coarse, stalked, stellate hairs, and armed with numerous straight, slender, fat, shining prickles. The prickles on the leaves abundant ; the longest ½in. Leaves 6-12in,, with broad triangular lin.-deep lobes, usually 2 at a node and unequal, stellately fulvous-woolly beneath, prickly, especially on the nerves
