isl 
 Maiiietaee: it is kept in ‘all drug gists’. shops, aa is pre- 
scribed in difficult labour, being jae: in water until it- 
_ -expands, when the water is administered to ‘the patient... 
~ This plant has been supposed by some to be the. seed- beans 3 
_ Amomum of Dioscorides. (See Primulacec.). 
. corymbose ° manner at the top; leaves obovate, the-lower ones” : 
‘entire, the upper remotely toothed ;. flowers. small, yellowish — 
a yellow concavo-convex seed. The whole plant is tomentose, E 
_and has hardly any taste; as seen in the: shops, it presents the | 
large egg at the top of the unbranched part of the stem. 
| Passerage ibéride. (Fr. ¥ 
they are attributed to Malua sylvestris; in others to Cheiranthus 
_ Cheiri; neither of these Suppositions can be correct, as the 
parcels of seed, when they arrive-in Bombay, contain corymbs 
Pe of small pods, much like those of common naires Ibu 
: account of Towdri :— A Persian name, in Greek Arusiman,* 
ts 2 . CRUCIFER®. 
’ Description.—stem short and woody, branched in aa 
white, forming spikes along the bacco the fruit is a. short : 
pouch with a strong curved beak, and two ear-like proj jections 
on each'side ; it is divided into four cells, each cell containing 
appearance of a little ball of wicker work ‘about the size of a 
Commerce.—It is — from So by way of the Persian 
rulf, 
“LEPIDIUM IBERIS, Lhe 
‘Fig. —Lob. Ie., t. 223. ST or — (Bag, , 
Hab. —Southern Europe to Siberia, The seeds, 
iiacle —Towdri (Pers.). 
_ History, Uses, &c.—These seeds are imported froth 
Persia. In some Buglish books upon Indian Materia Medica 
Be 
in n Arabic Bazr-el-khum-khum, Bazr-el-hawah, and Kasisa ; 
epbaipor of Dios. is generally considered to be Sistem 9 off 
