64 : BERBERIDEE. 
Commerce.—lIt is an article of commerce in Southern India F 
only. 4 
The ee plants of minor impor tance some= 
times used medicinally, are the following :— a 
Tinospora crispa, Miers., extending from Sylhet anda 4 
Assam to Pegu and Malacca. It possesses the bitterness and | q 
tonic properties of 7. cordifolia,“and is known by the same 4 
vernacular names. o 
Cocculus Lezba, D. C., Pluk. Am.,t. 384, f. 4, a 
scandent shrub of the Punjab, Sindh, and Blinc. which is 
also found in Afghanistan, Arabia and Persia, has bitter and — 
tonic properties similar to those of Tinospora cordifolia. It is 4 
known in the Punjab and Sindh as Ullar-billar and Parvati. 
Tiliacora racemosa, Coleb., Rheede Hort. Mal. vii. 
i. 3; Miers., Contrib. itt. 76, t. 104, a climbing shrub found 
aewagbou! tropical India and in Ceylon, is one of the three 
kinds of Mushadi used by the Telfngés as remedies for 
snake-bite. These three kinds are: Mushadi, Strychnos Nus- 
vomica; Naga-Mushadi, Strychnos colubrina; and Ti 
-Mushadi, Tiliacora racemosa. Other vernacular names for t 
plant are Tiliakora (Beng.) and .Baéga-mushada ( Hind.) ; it is 
bitter like others of the genus, and, it is hardly necessary to — 
say, no antidote to snake poison. 
Pericampylus incanus, Miers. Under the name o 
Bérak-kdnta, slender Menisperaceous stems are sold in the 
_ Bengal bazars which appear to belong to this plant. ° 
: BERBERIDEA, 
-BERBERIS, ARISTATA, pe. 
Fig.—Bentl. and Trim., t 16, Nepaul Barberry (Eng.) 
Vinettier aristé (Fr.). 
-Hab.—Temperate Himalaya, Nilgiri ieee Oayianl 
