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NATURAL HISTORY; 



* The leaves of the Piingli are believed in the Konkan to be a cure for snake-bite; 

 A case of an alleged cure was lately brought to the notice df the Revd. Fr. Dreckmann iu 

 Bombay. A man had been bitten by a poisonous snake and was said to have recovered 

 after the application to the wound of the leaves and other parts of two plants, which 

 were produced ; and one of these was apparently the Pangli. 



t The Ashta is distinguished^ the Hill-people from the Pipalof the plains, of which 

 k is i eihaps a va'iety; 



