74. Farsetia Jacquemontii, H.f. and T.

The medicinal plant Farsetia Jacquemontii, H.f is a member of the Brassicaceae or Cruciferae (mustards) family. This page includes its habitat, botanical descption, medicinal uses (eg., Ayurveda), chemical constituents and history of use in modern and ancient India.

Vernacular:—Mulei, farid buti, lathia, farid muli (Pb.)

Habitat:—Sandy places in the Punjab and Sindh.

Botanical description:—An erect, rather rigid, hoary perennial herb, covered with closely adpressed hairs attached at their middle.

Stems: 12-18 in., branches virgate. Leaves ¼-1 in., linear-oblong or linear.

Flowers: large; buds elliptic;

Sepals: acute, strigose;

Petals: half as long as the sepals.

Stigma: short, suberect.

Pods: narrow linear or linear-oblong, 1½-2 by ⅓-⅙ in., compressed; valves flat, nerveless or faintly one-nerved; seeds 2-seriate.