CON VOLVULACEZ, oad 
. Plants of minor importance belonging to this Order, which 
are used medicinally, are:— | 
: Ehretia buxifolia, Rob. Cor. Pl. 4., t. 57, a shrub of 
the Deccan Peninsula, called Kurwvingi in Tamil, the root of 
which, according to Ainslie, is sweet and slightly pungent 
when fresh, and is used as au alterative in cachexia and 
_ syphilis; the Mahometans consider to be an antidote to 
4 vegetable poisons. 
a Ehretia obtusifolia, Hochst., a native of Sind and the 
4 Punjab, is considered to have similar properties. 
Coldenia procumbens, Linn., Lam. Ill., ¢. 89, a com- 
mon weed in rice fields during the cold season, known to the 
natives as Tripakshi or Tripankhi, is, when dried and powdered, 
made into a paste with an equal proportion of powdered 
fenugreek, and applied to boils to promote maturation, 
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CONVOLVULACE&. 
IPOMZA TURPETHUM, Pr. 
Fig.—-Bot. Reg., t. 279; Bot. Mag., t. 2093. 
-Hab.—Throunghout India and Ceylon. The root. oe 
oot. lating 
- Vernacular. —Nisot, Nakpatr, Pitohri ( eed ), Teor: ( Beng. i, 
Shivadai, Shivadai-vér (Tam.), Tegada, Tegada-véru (Tel.), 
Chivaka-véra (Mal.), Tigadikeputigadi (Can.), Nishottar, 
Tartari, Shetvara, Phutkari (Mar,), Nishotar (@uz.). 
_ History, Uses, &c.—This drug, which bears the Sans- — 
krit names of Triputa, “ three-angled, ” Trivrit, “ three-fold, ‘e 
Kutaran4, Tinti and Nindika, is described in the Nighantas as 
pungent, cathartic, dry, sweet and hot; a dispellent of wind, 
: ot bile and melancholy, and bitter and ae 
os rene two varie varieties, Sree Se 4 
Ss. 
