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_ eaten when young... Dried, these capsules and seeds, as well as 
the flowers, leaves and root, are amongst the medicines. which 
_ are supposed to have virtues in snake-bites; the dose of the 
seeds is about three daily, administered i in powder, (Ainslie.) 
The capsules have been sent to us from Poona as being in use 
there. In the Concan the juice of Rivea ornata, Phénd 
(Mar. ), is made with Borneo camphor and butter into an oint- 
ment for pityriasis. For piles, one told of the Juice | with half 
a tolé of Babul pods, and a little sugar, is given.in a quarter 
seer of cow’s milk every morning. 
e ARGYREIA SPECIOSA, Sweet. 
- ‘Fig. — Wight Ic., t 851; Bot. Mag. 2446. Wlephaak-areepre 
(Eng.). 
Hab. Oo. Thycdghout India. The leaves and root. 
- Vernacular.—Samandar-sokh (Hind. ),. Bijtarka (Beng. ), 
mudra-shok (Mar.), Shamuddira-pachchai, Kadal-péla 
(Tam. ), Samudra-p4la, Kokkita (Tel., Can), recone arr rs 
Samudra-yogam (Mal.), Samudra-sosha (Guz.). sa 
History, Uses, &c.—The root. of .this large i 
an which is called Samudra-sosha in . Sanskrit, is used. as @ 
bstitute in Bengal for the drug described under the name of 
Vriddhad4raka, a drag which we have already noticed as having 
een originally the root of Ipomea biloba. The large leaves, 
ich have the under-surface covered by’a thick layer of silky. 
hairs, afford a kind ‘of natural impermeable piline, and are 
as a maturant by the natives. ‘ With regard to the alleged 
blistering properties of the upper surface of the leaf there 
<8 be some mistake, as we find it has no effect when Saprett 
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action. — Leaves ee aed 91 to 12 rachel vad 
and 8 to 10 broad, or even larger; upper. surface dark green 
smooth, under-surface white and silky from the presence 
a felted layer of long simple hairs. Under the. microseope, 
3 are seen to he simple tubes gradually tapering to omen 
