TLIACER, 
the seeds of 0. tr theuhéels, which are bitter, are plistieahed 
in doses of about 80 grains in fever and obstructions of. the 
- abdominal viscera. A bitter corchorus was known to the 
Greeks. Theophrastus says 6 wapouatépevos Bid thy mxpérnra — 
képyopos.. (H. P., VII. 7. ) Pliny (21, 106) also -Mentions 
Corchorus as a poor kind of pulse growing wild. 
Description.—The seeds, which are closely picked in. 
the trilocular capsule, “are small, black and angular; they 
are generally more or less mixed with those of C. olitorius, 
which may easily be distinguished by their greater size (foth — 
of an inch) and — sg which resembles that of a 
8 buoy, 
Corchorus fascicularis, am., a native of 
tropical India, Australia and Africa, is a small procumbent 
woody plant ‘with oblong or lanceolote serrated leaves; — 
' peduncles 2—5 floweréd, opposite to the leaves; capsules ~ 
linear oblong, nearly terete, rostrate, three-celled, about — 
half an-inch lang, clothed with simple hairs ; they con- 
tained a number. of small dark-brown angular seeds. The 
whole plant is sold in the shops; it is’ very mucilaginous and 
somewhat astringent, and is valued as a restorative. Hiran- — 
khorf is the namé given to it by the: country people, and — 
“leans deer’s hoof. In the Calcutta and, Bombay sheps it 
- 1s called Bhaphalf, which namé must not be confounded with - 
Bhaphalf, the Marathi name for Peucedanum grande, an umi- — 
belliferous plant. - ¢ 
eo, fascicularis has been repeived from Poona under the 
name of Magarmithi. C. Antichorus, Reusch., eae 1078," 
* isalso sold as Baphali. 
GREWIA TILIZFOLIA, Valid: 
Fig. —Beddome, Fl. Syl., t. 108. ide 
' Hab.—Western India to the Himalayas, aa Cey 
Vernacular.—Dh&mani ¢Hind.; Beng.), Dhéman- 
ini, Tharra (Tam.), Charachi ae % ae : 
