| PlantID | 0116 |
| Botanical Name | Plumbago zeylanica |
| Common Name | Chitrak |
| Classification | | Kingdom: | Plantae | | Subkingdom: | Tracheobionta | | Division: | Magnoliophyta | | Class: | Magnoliopsida | | Subclass: | Caryophyllidae | | Order: | Caryophyllales | | Family: | Plumbaginaceae | | Genus: | Plumbago | | Species: | zeylanica |
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| Part used | Root and root-bark. |
| Medicinal Properties | Root-bark: antiperiodic and sudorific. Root: abortifacient and vesicant, antidiarrhoeal, antidyspeptic, appetizing, sudorific, digestive.
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| Medicinal Use | Prescribed for oedema, abdominal diseases, piles, sprue, worms and pruritus. Roort-bark: milky juice applied with benefit in scabies and ulcers. Root: useful in anasarca, piles, intermittent fevers and in skin diseases.
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| Chemistry | Protein in pollen grains; volatile oil from leaves and stem; root-bark: fructose, glucose, invertase and protease. Root: chitranone, plumbagin, catechol tannin.
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| Cultivation | NA |
| Regional Habitat | Throughout Rajasthan. Also grown in gardens. |
| Description | A sub-scandent, perennial shrub, branches diffuse. Leaves: alternate, ovate, narrowed into the petiole. Flowers: borne in spikes, rachis of the spike pubescent or glandular. Corolla white, tube long and slender. Base of the style glabrous. Fruits: oblong and pointed capsules, enclosed by persistent viscid calyx. Flowers and fruits during the winter.
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