0° 8 OREACED. 
| Helbing’s s description, nor does it yield an oil of the nature 
described by him. The seeds of H. pian are brown. 
TODDALIA ACULEATA, Para: 
Fig. —Rheede, Hort. Mal. v.,41; Wight Ill. t. 66; bail 
Tu. ii., 116; Bentl. and Trim, t. 49. Espinho as ladrio 
(Port. ), Patte de poule (/’r.). 
hy 
ae Hab.—Sub-tropical Himalaya, Western Peninsula, Ceylon. | 
_, The root and fruit. 
_Vernacular.—Milakaranai (Tam.), Konda-kashinda (Tel.), 
Kiidémiris-wel (Cing.), Kanch, Dahan (Hind.), Limri (Mar.), 
Kaka-toddali (Mal.). 
History, Uses, &c.—This scandent shrub appears to 
_haye been one of the plants known to Sanskrit writers as 
_ Kénchana or golden, on account of the orange colour of its 
fruit. It was also called Dahana or burning, on account of the 
sungency of its berries ; both of these names are still in use in 
he vernacular. Rheede says that the unripe fruit and root 
5 b> s os: 
“Malakarunnay (Scopolia aculeata, Smith,) is the Tamool 
name of a small white root about the third part of an 
inch in diameter, the bark of which is bitter, pungent and 
‘sub-aromatic, and is considered as stomachic and tonic. Tt is 
en in a weak infusion to the quantity of half a teacupful in 
1@ course of the day; the leaves are also sometimes used 
for the same ‘purpose.’ Roxburgh, in the Flora Indica,, 
rab has a strong pungent taste; the roots, when fresh cut, 
ticularly so. The fresh avon are eaten raw for pains in the 
the ripe (unripe) berries are fully as pungent as black 
the natives prepare an excellent pickle.” The fresh bark 
istered by the Telinga physicione for the cure of 
re rubbed down in oil to make a liniment for rheumatism. — 
pase mentions its use in Southern India. He says:— 
ibes the plant fully, and says: “That every part of this 
4 and with nearly the same kind of pungency ; from — : 
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