Goldib. — Maon Medical Lore. 117 



Loganiacece. 

 Geniostoma iingustri folium. (Hanehane.) 



Applied to a skin-disease of children (haivaniwani) (E. Best). 



Convolvulacece. 

 Ipomcea batatas, Lam. (Kutnara ; Sweet-potato.) 



The whole plant is boiled and the liquor used internally for 

 low fever, and externally for various skin-diseases. 



Solaneo?. 



Solanum laciniatum. (Poroporo.) 



The inner layer of the bark is used for hakihaki (scabies), 

 and the leaves as cataplasms for ulcers. 



Scrophularinece. 

 Veronica salicifolia, Forst. (Koromiko, Kokomiko, Kokomuka.) 



This is perhaps the most generally diffused plant in New 

 Zealand. It is also the best-known medicinal plant, being used 

 equally by native and settler. Its well-defined astringent pro- 

 perties render it a valuable drug in dysentery and diarrhoea. 

 A few of the young fresh leaves are chewed and swallowed, or, 

 bs-ing pounded with a mallet, they are then boiled for two hours 

 or less : the resulting decoction, after filtration, is taken internally 

 for the above-mentioned complaints. Baber* found that an 

 infusion of the dried leaves had no therapeutic effect, but that 

 a decoction had. From this he supposed the active principle 

 differed from tannin. The leaves and tender shoots are used 

 as a poultice for ulcers and venereal disease. Koromiko is also 

 used in the native medicated steam or vapour bath. 



Gesneriaceo3. 

 Ehabdothamnus solandri. (Kaikai-aruhe.) 



The fresh leaves and twigs are used in the medicated vapour 

 bath. 



Verbenacece. 



Myoporum latum, Forst. (Ngaio.) 



The bark is chewed for toothache, the twigs and leaves to 

 medicate the vapour bath, and the juice expressed from the 

 leaves is applied to the skin to prevent mosquito and sandfly 

 bites. 



* " The Chemist and Druggist of Australasia," 1886, p. 268. 



