RUBIACEAE. 999 
tory, Uses, &c.—An article of the Hindu Materia 
lea in repute asaremedy for rheumatism. The Sanskrit 
sare Prasdrani, Apehi-vata, “expelling flatulence,” and 
-bhadiéliya. It is the P. fetida of Willdenow (Spec. I., 
| the Somaraji of the Asiatic Researches (IV., 261), the 
lvulus feetidus of Rumphius (Amb. V. 436, t. 160), and 
Apocynum ftidum of Burmannus (Ind., p. 71). The plant 
found i i most parts of India and all through the Malayan 
rchipelago, extending from the Mauritius. northward to 
uina and Japan; in Assam it is called ‘ Bedoli Sutta,’ and in 
‘ Jung-gala’; it has been lately brought to notice as a 
e-yielding plant ; Roxburgh says that the Hindus use the 
jas an emetic. Rumphius describes it as emollient and 
ninative, and useful in colic, spasms, rheumatism and. 
Corre and Lejanne say that in Cochin-China it is used 
emetic under the name of Toui dit. As a specific in 
umatism, used both internally and externally, it is best 
nin Hindu medicine. Bh4va Misra prescribes an elec- 
(Prasérani leha), which is made by boiling down a strong 
n of the plant with treacle to the consistence of a thick 
, and then adding ginger, pepper and Plumbago root. 
1akradatta the method of preparing a liniment (Kubja 
rani taila) will be found. (Duét’s Hindu Materia Medica, 
ern Concan. 
Description. —Stem ligneous, twining, young parts 
, smooth ; leaves opposite, long petioled, oblong-cordate, 
smooth, entire; stipules broad-cordate ; panicles axillary 
terminal ; cccce numerous, of a deep pink colour ; bracts 
e; berry ary, compressed, smooth, with five lines on each 
ive odour of bisulphide of carbon when bruised. — 
mical conposition.—By distillation with water 
s btained, which ba the ake offens 
9.) In the Bombay Presidency the plant is found in the _ 
one-celled, two-seeded ; seed compressed, smooth, with a | 
