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and by the same method, no difficulty was found in obtaining 
Cocaine from EF. Coca grown in India. The wood is fragrant, 
whence the name Bastard Cedar, and the bark is used as a 
tonic in the Madura district. 
Hugonia Mystax, Linn., Rheede Hort. Mal. wi., .t. 19; 
Wight Ill. 7., ¢. 32, is a rambling, leafy, tomentose shrub, 
with yellow flowers, found in the Western Peninsula from the 
Concan to Travancore, and in Ceylon. According to Rheede, 
who calls it Modera cannz, the bruised roots are used to 
reduce inflammatory tumours and internally as a epee and 
anthelmintic. 
sd 
ZYGOPHYLLE. 
TRIBULUS TERRESTRIS, Linn. 
Fig.— Wight Ic., t. 98. Small Caltrops (Eng). 
Hab.—India and other warm countries. The fruit and 
root. 
Vernacular.—Chota Gokhri (Hind.), Gokhuri (Beng.), 
Lahana Gokhru (Mar.), Nerunji (Tam.), Negalu-gida (Can.), 
Mitha Gokhru, Beththa Gokhru (Guz.). Palleru-mullu, Chiru- 
palleru (Tel.). 
History, Uses, &c.—This plant is the Gokshura and 
Ikshugandha of Sanskrit writers; the first of these names 
signifies ‘‘cow’s hoof” from the resemblance of the cocci when __ 
adhering togéther in pairs, as is frequently the case, to a o 
cloven hoof, the second alludes to the aroma of the Boe 
The Hindus use the fruit and root; they regard them as having 
cooling, diuretic, tonic and aphrodisiac properties, and use 
them in gonorrheea and dysuria. The root is one of the ten 
drugs which go to form the Dasamula Kvatha, a comp 
decoction often mentioned ‘in Sanskrit works. The ten. ants 
_ are Desmodium gangeticum, Uraria nevveternne 0 
