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Abstract
Pharmacognostic characters of Echolium linneanum Kurz (Var. dentata Cl.) having Ayurvedic application in jaundice, menorrhagia, rheumatism, disuria etc. are: 1. Low shrubby habit with woody root stock, bluish bifid flowers in dense spikes, large imbricate 4-ranked bracts oblong lanceolate lamina tapering at both ends and very short petioles; 2. large oval glandular cells with dense contents, on leaf and stem periphery; 3. wood in stem ring porous with mostly solitary pores and with heterogeneous rays (type I of Jane, 1955) containing micro-crystals; 4. internal phloem; 5. leaves with caryophyllaceous stomata; palisade ratio: 4.07 (0.09), stomatal index: 16.52 (1.10) and vein-islet number: 7.00 (0.21); 6. roots with abundant thick-walled fibres in secondary xylem.