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‘PITTOSPO REA. 
. PITTOSPORUM: FLORIBUNDUM, 
| W. & A. var. : 
Hab.—Subtropical Himalaya, Western Peninsula. 
Vernacular.—Vehkali, Vikhéri, Vehyenti (Mar.), Tibiliti 
s (Nepal.). 
; 
History, ‘Uses, &c.-—Little or nothing appears to be 
known of the medicinal properties of the genus Pittosporum. 
_ A variety of P. floribundum is common on the Western ghauts 
and in other mountainous -parts of India. The bark is bitter 
and aromatic, and is said by. the natives to possess narcotic 
roperties. It is used as a febrifage in doses of 5—10 grains; — 
in doses of 20 grains they believe it to be a specific for snake 
ison. The Marathas on the Ghats ax it Vikhari or Vishéri, 
which means “an antidote for poison.” Mr. Bajaba Balaji 
Nené, a Brahmin practitioner of Poona, who first noticed its 
use among the hill people, informs-us that he has given 5—10 
- grain doses of the dried bark with benefit in chronic bron- 
_chitis, and that he finds it to be a good expectorant, but in one 
_or two cases iti which it was tried. in Bombay, it is said to 
ave given rise to dysenteric symptoms; Mr. Nené, however, ~ 
nforms .us that he bas not observed its administration to 
be followed by any such effect. Graham remarks that the — 
cortex fetidus of Rumphius ee 7,) jae to belong to _ 2 
, =~ 
and , very bitter. P. bat nec small 
