430 - " ERGUMINOSZ. 
Ormocarpum sennoides, DC., Wight Ic. t. 297, is a 
low shrub of the Western Peninsula and Ceylon, with terete 
slender branches. The young shoots and flowering parts are 
covered with a soft glutinous hair ; the glutinous secretion is of 
a golden yellow colour, The leaves are pinnate, leaflets 9 to 145 
alternate, oblong-obtuse, membranous. ‘The racemes are short 
and axillary; 3 to 6 flowered, flowers yellow. Pods 2 to 5- 
jointed, pendulous, much contracted at the joints, muricated, glu- 
tinous. The plantis called Kat-morungi in Tamil, Kadunugge 
- in Canarese, and Adavimtinaga in Telugu; a decoction of the root 
is used in fever as a tonic and stimulant, and a liniment (¢ai/a) 
in paralysis and lumbago. 
Desmodium triflorum, DC., Vern. Sirupullady (Tam.), 
Moonoodoo-moordoo (Tel.), Kadalaya (Hind.), Koolaliya 
(Beng.), Rén-methi (Mar.), is very common in sandy ground 
under the shade of trees. The leaves are used as a galactagogue _ 
by native females after confinement; they are well washed and 
ground with cow’s milk, and taken daily in the morning. 
They are also administered to children as a remedy for 
_ diarrhoea caused by indigestion, and in convulsions. (P. S. 
Mootooswamy.) Roxburgh remarks that the natives apply the 
fresh plant, well bruised, to wounds that do not readily heal. 
ABRUS PRECATORIUS, Linn. 
Fig.—BRheede, Hort. Mal. viii. t. 89; Bentl. and Trims 
t. 77. Jamaica Wild Liquorice, Jequirity (Eng.), Arbre a 
chapelets (/’r.). : 
Hab.—India and other hot countries. The seeds, root 
and leaves. . 
Vernacular.-—Gunj, Ghungachi (Hind., Beng.), Gunjha 
(Mar.), Gundumani (Tam.), Chanoti (Guz.), Guri-ginja (Tel.), 
Gulganji (Can.). 
a History, Uses, &c.—This plant is mentioned by Susrata — 
_- palkthe older Sanskrit writers, it must therefore have long been _ 
ne medicine among the Hindus; they describe two 
