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istory, Uses, &c.—The roots of these plants, in Sans- 
chhuka, have long been in useas a red dye in India, and 
wes and fruit are used medicinally. A paste of the leaves 
bined with aromatics is given in diarrhcea and dysentery 
d is also used as a tonic and febrifuge. The juice is used as: 
‘deobstruent and emmenagogue, and when unripe is eaten as 
egetable in curries. Morinda is extensively cultivated in 
lalwa ; itissown broadcast or in drills, and the ground ploughed 
md harrowed. In from 15 to 20 days the sced comes up, the 
leld is then weeded, and the ground stirred. This operation 
s old, when the fruit is gathered, placed in heaps, covered 
straw and allowed to rot; the seed is then washed out. 
at or other grain is cultivated between the trees. The root 
ocrted to Guzerat and Hindustan, See As. Research, iv, 
» where an account of the method of dyeing with the root 
be found. The plant is also cultivated in Southern India, 
ng, smooth shining leaves, 10 to 12 inches long, and 4 to 
inches broad, veins pale, and prominent on the under sur- 
ce ; flowers white, with a long infundibuliform corolla ; fruit 
biong, 3inches or more in length, and composed of the 
ucculent enlarged calyces, enclosing many cartilaginous 
ed pyrenes ; it is vf a pale yellowish green colour, and is 
w 
are black and not unlike quince seeds. M. ti 
and fruit very sim 
tree, having leaves, flowers 
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ed with numerous circular scars; when quite ripe it has 
extremely offensive odour like that of putrid cheese. The = __ 
