Crotalaria CALYCINA Schrank


Synonym : Crotalaria anthylloides D.Don
Crotalaria roxburghiana DC.
Crotalaria stricta Roxb.
Bangla Name : -
English Name : -
Family : Fabaceae
Disease : Pain, convulsions, wounds, venereal sores, syphilis, carbuncle, haematuria, cholera, dysentery and spider-lick.
Description : Annual herb, 30-60 cm high, simple or with a few ascending branches with short adpressed silky hairs. Leaves 5-8 cm long, but in the linear form 12-15 cm long, acute, glabrous, obscurely silky beneath. Flowers 2-12 in lax terminal racemes, and solitary from leafy nodes. Calyx large, densely clothed with long brown silky hairs, corolla pale yellow, shorter than the calyx. Pod linear-oblong, sessile, glabrous, 1.2-2 cm long.
Distribution : Chittagong, Chittagong Hill Tracts, Cox’s Bazar.
Chemical Constituents : -
Uses : Plants are used in pain, convulsions, wounds, venereal sores, syphilis, carbuncle, haematuria, cholera, dysentery and spider-lick.
Habit : h