ROSACEZ. 583. 
sore-throat and as a wash to sores. Agrimony tea is used as 
a domestic remedy for dyspeptic conditions with derangement 
of the bowels, and also hot to induce perspiration in febrile 
affections. According to Nicholson (Med. Times and Gaz., 1879, 
p. 367), Agrimony is an efficient teniacide when given pounded 
to a pulp, and followed several hours afterwards by a dose of 
jalap, and also an active diuretic and antiscorbutic. The 
plant contains 4°75 per cent. of tannin, a fragrant yellow 
volatile oil, a bitter principle, and a° yellow colouring matter, 
which has been used as a dye. 
Bintafalun.—aAll Indian Mahometan works on Materia _ 
Medica contain lengthy descriptions of the virtues of g¥lhu, 
the mevrdvddoy or cinquefoil of the Greeks, which is generally 
identified with Potentilla Tomentilla, Sibth., a plant the roots 
of which were formerly much used in medicine ou account of 
their astringent properties, and which the old physicians 
considered to have a peculiar action upon the acidities of the 
_ stomach and bowels, and to cleanse them from the slimy mucus 
and sordes with which they were supposed to be loaded. The 
drug is not obtainable in the bazars, but Dr. Stewart has 
observed that the roots of P. nepalensis, Hook., are used as a 
- substitute for it in the Punjab, and Murray records the use of 
P. supina, Linn., in Sind. P. nepalensis, like P. Tomentilla, 
contains tannin and a red colouring matter. 
COTONEASTER NUMMULARIA, Fischet Mey. 
Fig.—Trans. Lin. Soc., 2nd Ser. Botany, Vol. vii, Pt. L., 
Pg Dee 
Hab.—Persia. The manna. a 
Vernacular.—Siah-chob, Kashiru (Pers.). The manna, Shir- 
khisht, Shirkhushk (Pers.). ee 
3 History, Uses, &c.—Mir Muhammad Husain remarks 
in the Mathzan-el-adwiya that Shirkhisht or Shirkhushk 
is not, as is generally stated, a honey dew which falls upon 
certain trees in Khorasan; but is an exudation from 4 
