Names: Hedysarum gangeticum.
Names: Hindi, Sarivan, Salparni; Sanskrit, Shalaparni; Bengali, Shalpahi.
Source: Bhandari, Ghose, Aghore Ch. Bhaduri.
Botany: erect undershrub; stem pubescent; leaves simple, ovate, oblong, entire, obtuse or acute, upper surface nearly glabrous, lower tomentose or thinly hairy; racemes numerous; flowers pink, hardly; fruit a pod, sessile, pubescent, curved, upper margin slightly indented lower deeply indented.
Content: pterocarpenoid gangetin; resin, oil; alkaloid; ash.