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‘burning of the soles of the feet, and with black pepper is rub- 
d round the orbit as a cure for night blindness, The Sans- 
t name is Karavella, the muricated variety is called Sushavi, 
d bears the synonym Kandira or “armed with arrows.” The 
author of the Makhzan-el-Adwiya describes the fruit as tonic 
and stomachic, and says that it is useful in rheumatism and 
; ; he also mentions 
ts anthelmintic properties. He points out that some have 
erroneously supposed it to be identical with the Katha-el-himar 
a the Arabs, which is a violent purgative. Drury has the 
following description of M. Charantia:—“ Climbing, stem 
re or less hairy; leaves palmately 5-lobed, sinuate, toothed, 
en young more or less villoas on the underside, particularly 
on the nerves; peduncles slender, with a reniform bracteole 
Ba bout the middle, female with it near the base; fruit oblong or 
vate, more or less tubercled or muricated; seeds with a thick 
Rotched margin and red aril ; flowers middle- sized, pale yellow.” 
In n the rainy season the plant may be seen in almost every gar- 
Jen in India. The fruit is also offered for sale in the market, 
d when well cultivated attains the size of a cucumber. 
MOMORDICA CYMBALARIA, Fenzl. 
Fig.—Lyon Med. Jurisp. for India, p. 200, jf. 14. 
Hab.—Deccan Peninsula, Mysore, Concan. The tubers, 
Vernacular.—Kadavanchi (Mar.). 
History, Uses, &c.—The whole plant is acrid; it is 
eutioned here as a number of the tubers were ainewade to 
@ Chemical Analyser to Government, Bombay, from Satara, as 
ving been found in the possession of a person suspected of 
ministering drugs to procure abortion. Our specimen was 
