504 - LOGANIACEA. 
4.e. Chinese Dand islikea pistachio nut, and the kind called San- 
jariis like a red castor seed, marked with rough patches. The 
Indian Dand is smaller than the Chinese, but larger than the 
Sanjari. Dand is a Persian name for Croton and Castor seeds 
of different kinds, and is the equivalent of the Hab-el-Khatai 
(Cathay berries) and Hab-el-Saldtin (Prince’s berries) of the 
Arabs, who.do not appear to have made use of lignum 
colubrinum. It is evidently a corruption of the Sanskrit 
Danii, and the Indian kind, smaller than the Chinese, is doubt- 
less the seed of Bultospermum azillare, the Danti-vija of the 
Hindus. . 
Virey (Histoire naturelle des Medicamenis, p. 191,) states 
that Bois de Couleuvre in an overdose occasions tremors and 
vomiting, but mentions at the same time that in smaller 
doses it may be considered as a useful vermifuge, and be given 
also with advantage in obstinate quartan agues. Guibourt 
considers that S. Colubrina yields the true lignum colubrinum, 
or Pao da Cobra of the Portuguese, but he is unable to. decide 
whether the wood usually found in commerce is produced by 
this tree or by;S. Nuwx-vomica. (Hist. Nat., Ed. 1869, Vol. 
IL, p. 557.) Its claims as an antiperiodic have been exa- 
mined by Dr. Berdenis van Berkelow (Schmidt’s jahrbucher, 
May 24, 1866, Brit. and. For. Med. Chir. Rev., April, 1867, 
p- 527); after a trial. with, it in twenty-two cases qnartan 
and tertian, he reports favourably of its action, and con- 
siders that from its cheapness it may advantageously be 
- wsed as afebrifuge. In Bombay shops two kinds of lignum 
_ eolubrinum (Goagari-lakri) are met with; the genuine and 
least « common ae roned from poussins ‘ind the stems of 89. 
ennai auateiag ane are particularly efficacious, 
and the extract of nux-vomica in half grain doses, appears to 
shave all the virtues of the lignum colubrinum. In the Concan. 
are a i 
the fresh leaves of 8. colubrina rubbed into a paste. with the _ 
i of the ashew: \pbaaning tumors. 
