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Physalis L. 



Physalis minima, L. Sp. PI. (1753) 183. 



Loc: Jodhpur: Bhikamkor (No. 6523!), Jodhpur (No. 6526!), Barmer 

 on sand (No. 6524 !). 



Distrib.: Trop. Africa, India, Ceylon, Australia. 



Fr. in October and November. 

 Physalis peruviana, L. Sp. PI. (1763) 1670. 



Loc: Jaisalmer : Between Phalodi and Bap (No. 6525! ), 



JVithania Paiiq. 



Withania somm/era, Dunal in DO. Prodr. XIII, Pt. I (1852)458. 

 Vern. N. : Argan, Chirpotan (Macadam). 



Loc: Jodhpur: Jodhpur (No. 6533 !), Maudor (Nos. 6522!, 6534)!. 

 Distrib.: Mediterranean region. Cape of Good Hope, India, Ceylon. 

 Fl. in October. 

 Uses: Used as a cure for lumbago and rheumatism. 



Lycium L. 



Lycium barbamm, L. Sp. PI. (1753)192. 



Vern. N.: Morali. 



Loc: Jodhpur : Kailana (No. 6547!), Balarwa (No. 6539!), Osian 

 (No. 6537 !), near Badka (No. 6536 !), Barmer (No. 6544 !). Jaisalmer : 

 Amarsagar (Nos. 6546!, 6541 !, 6545 !, 6543 !), Devikot (No. 6542 !), 

 Vinjorai, dunes (No. 6540 !), near Bap (No. 6538 !), common in dry 

 and rocky places (Macadam). 



Distrib.: India, Baluchistan, Afghanistan, Persia. 



Fl. in October, 



Uses : The leaves, pounded and mixed with ghee, are applied to 

 abscesses. The bark of the wood is pounded and the powder 

 blown into the nostrils of horses against bronchitis. Used in local 

 salt-industry. 



The process at Pachbhadra is as follows: — " Oblong pits of various 

 sizes are dug, a supply of brine percolates through the pit bed, 

 and when that has become sufficiently concentrated, so as to 

 show signs of crystallisation around the pit edge, branches of a 

 thorny shrub, called morali, a species of mimosa (No, of Lycium !) 

 are sunk in it. On these branches salt crystals form and con- 

 tinue to grow for two, or sometimes three years. At the end of 

 that period the salt crop is extracted, usually in this way : men 

 enter the pit, and with an iron chisel, wedge-shaped, and having 

 a handle five feet long, they cut through the thorny branches, and 

 break up the salt which is caked on the bottom. By shaking the 

 branches the crystals are detached." — Adams 5. 



Datura L. 

 Datura fastuosa, L. Syst. Nat. ed. 10 (1759)932. 



Vern. N.: Datura, dhola (Macadam). 



Loc: Jodhpur : Balarwa (No. 6531). Jaisalmer : Amarsagar (No. 6528 !). 

 Datura fastuosa, var. alba, C. B. Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. IV 



(1883) 243. 



Loc. : Jaisalmer : Bap (No. 6529!). Jodhpur: Barmer (No. 6530!). 

 About gardens and cultivated places, more common than the type 

 (Macadam). 



Nicotiana L. 



Nieotiana tabacum, L. Sp. PI. (1753) 180. 



Loc: Jodhpur: "A coarse tobacco is grown round some of the villages 

 and is consumed locally (Erskine)." 



