350 MYRSINEA. 
mintic. Mfr Muhammad Husain notices that it turns the 
urine red. He fixes the dose at three dirhems of the powder, 
and directs it to be given with fresh milk. Rheede figures a 
plant which appears to be Hmbelia robusta, and states that the. 
seeds kill worms. Ainslie has the following short notice of 
it:—‘‘ Babreng is the Hindooie name of a vermifuge seed, 
common, I have been given to understand, in the higher pro- 
vinees. of Bengal, the Sanskrit name of which. is. Chitratan- 
doola. What the plant is I know not.’” Roxburgh. gives. a 
full botanical description of the plant, and. remarks. that the 
berries. are used to adulterate pepper. Royle notices. their 
aperient properties. Vayvirang is iu high repute. as an an- 
thelmintic among the country people, especially in cases of 
tapeworm, a disorder common among the Native Christians of 
the Coast. The dose is a teaspoonful of the-powder twice a 
day for a child, anda dessertspoonful for an adult; it can 
hardly be called purgative; the taste is rather. pleasant, 
slightly astringent, and faintly aromatic, The worm is 
expelled dead. A purgative should be given to prepare the 
patient for the drug. It is a common practice to put a few 
berries of this plant in the milk that is given to young 
children ; they are supposed to prevent flatulence: 
Recently Dr. Harris (Lancet, July 23rd, 1887) has directed 
attention to the value of this drug as a remedy for tapeworm. 
He states that he has administered it for several years with 
good results to natives of India and Europeans ; he gives one to 
four drachms with milk and curds early in the morning. 
Description.—The_ fruit is globular, of a dull red, and 
grows in large bunches; it is rather smaller than a pepper- 
corn. The dried fruit has the five partite calyx and stalk 
often attached ; 3 the outer shell is striated from. the base to the 
apex, where eens; is a small beak ; its colour is reddish brown, 
marked with dark tage 3 inside the outer shell is the seed, 
enveloped ina deli 8, on removing which a cup- 
like hollow mreiien ~ the stalk. The 
