\ 
“stitute for the imported article. . 
- Connected with their red colour. 
" Ay lt OR: i lalache as 
his plant may have been Lavatera ari peomeries Malache 
204, MALVACEZ:. 
filled with starch granules; but some large ones contain muci- 
lage only. The central woody column abounds in large pitted 
vessels. Soaked in water the root gives out abundance of | 
mucilage having a faintly bitter taste. When properly scraped 4 
and dried it is very white and apparently an efficient sub- a 
The roots of Hibiscus Rosa sinensis, Shoe-flower (Eng.), é 
Ketmie de Cochin-Chine (Fr.), the Jésund or J&sus of Bom- 
bay, the Java of Hindustan, Shappathupu of Madras, Foul- 
sapattes of the French Creoles, and Java or Japa of Sanskrit 
writers, are also dried and sold in the shops as a substitate 
for Althea. In the Concan the fresh root-juice of he a 
white flowered variety is given in doses of two tolds with ; 
milk, sugar and cummin for gonorrhoea, and the root pow- 
dered is given with an equal quantity of Lotus-root and the 
bark of Eriodendron anfractuosum in the same manner for 
menorrhagia, the dose of the three being 6 massas. This 
shrub is the Flos festalis of Rumphius (vi., II.), who relates 4 
the confession of a native of Banda in 1655 that he had caused 
the abortion of his concubine by giving her the flowers 
rubbed down with Papaya seeds. He says they are popularly 
considered to be emmenagogue in Amboyna, In India the 
Papaya is considered an abortifacient, but not the flowers of 
H. Rosa sinensis ; the notion is evidently a fanciful one, and 
aS US ee OS pe 
MALVA SYLVESTRIS, Linn. 
Fig.—Hng. Bot. 671. Common Mallow (Eng.), Mauve 
sauvage (F'r.), 
Hab.—Temperate climates. The fruit. 
Vernacular.—K hubA4zi (Arab., Ind.). 
History, Uses, &c.—This plant, or M. rotundifoltas 
is generally supposed to have been the Hahaxn of Dioscorides, 
th Dj and the 
Egyptians Khokorteen, iid at Zoroaster called it Diadesma Hind 
rosper Alpinus deseri fi cares 
olitorius as Melochia. T poms nus describes and figures - 7 
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