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it, which: is an obovate ‘eunngpiesaed drupe of a reddish- 
Brown colour about the size of a horse bean : ; it is sweet, and 
contains two seeds.. 
Canthium didymum, Rowb. Mallea, Varsangi (Mar. 
Naum-pdpala (Tel.), has leaves which smell like coriander. 
The pounded bark is applied by the natives to fractures.: 
These plants have really little, if any, medicinal qualities. 
Vangueria spinosa, Rozb., is the. Pinda and Pindi- 
E taka of Sanskrit writers, who. consider the fruit to be 
medicinal, and describe it as strengthening, cooling, and an 
expellant of phlegm and bile. It is a small tree or large bush, 
_ ¢ommon in many parts of India, from Northern Bengal to 
_ Canara, which bears.cymes of greenish flowers ; the fruit is a 
a drupe, the size of a cherry, of a yellow colour when ripe, sub- 
globose or turbinate, smooth and fleshy, pyrenes 4 to 5, woody, 
smooth, 
F Mayna (Beng.), Pedda-manga (Tam.), Vadanike, Chega- b- 2 
(Tel.), Chircholi, Madanvriksh (Mar.), Maggare- “aide Care ae: 
PAVETTA INDICA, Linn. 
Fig.— Rheede Hort. Mal. v., t. 10; Wight Ic., t. 148. 
Hab.— Throughout India. The root and leaves. 
Vernacular.—Kukura-chura (Beng.), Papari, Kankra (Hind.), 
Pavuttay-vayr (Tam.), Péputta-vayroo (Fel.}, oe (Mar.), 
_ Pappadi (Can.). 
History, Uses, &c.—This shrub, which is common 
on hilly ground, is called P4pata and Tiryakphala in Sanskrit. 
It is the Malleamothe of Rheede, who says that the leaves are 
used as manure, and a decoction of them as 8 fomtntatiie, and 
that the root with ginger is given in dewey Ainslie says i— 
The vernacular names are Pundrika, Pinditak (Hind.), es 
