Botanical name: Lindenbergia indica    Family: Orobanchaceae (Broomrape family)
Synonyms: Lindenbergia sinaica, Lindenbergia polyantha

Indian Pout-Flower is an annual or perennial herb, 15–40 cm high, often profusely branched, densely or sparsely hairy with glandular and eglandular hairs. Leaves are broadly ovate to ovate, 1-4 cm long, up to 2.5 cm wide, widely wedge-shaped at the base, blunt or pointed at tip, margins coarsely rounded toothed-toothed; lower leaves stalked with leaf-stalk (5-)10-30 mm, upper leaves with shorter leaf-stalks or stalkless Flowers in leaf-axils; flower-stalk 1-5 mm Bracts 3-4 mm Sepal-cup 5-6 mm long, lobes triangular, ± 1 mm, 10-ribbed, velvet-hairy with glandular and eglandular hairs, hairy within Flower yellow to brownish yellow, often with brown spots, 1.2-1.9 cm long, tube narrow, upper lip hairy inside, lower lip velvet-hairy along median line Stamens with the upper filaments inserted 2-5 mm above the base of flower Capsule ovoid, 4-8 mm long, narrowing at the tip, hairless or sparsely hairy. It is found growing on rocks in lower Himalayas and all over the country on damp, old walls.
Medicinal uses: Juice of the plant is given in chronic bronchitis and mixed with coriander plant applied to skin eruptions

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