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cough; also in epileptic and convulsive ailections. Roxburgh 

 {Fl. Ind., iii., 22) remarks that the leaves and all parts of the 

 plant are delightfully fragrant, they are frequently eaten with 

 bread and butter, also bruised and put into country beer, cool 

 tankards, i&c., being an excellent substitute for Borage. Amongst 

 the natives of India the juice is a domestic remedy in colic and 

 dyspepsia, and the crushed leaves are applied to relieve the pain 

 and irritation caused by the sting of the ccntiiDode. The chopped 

 leaves, made into pellets and dipped in a paste made of the 

 flour of the chickpea, are fried in butter and eaten. Food pre- 

 pared in this manner is a favorite Indian dish and is called m 

 (bhajen). Dr. Wight speaks of the plant as a powerful aromatic 

 carnunative, given in cases of colic in children, in the treatment 

 of which the expresssd juice is prescribed mixed with sugar or 

 other suitable vehicle. In his own practice ho observed it to 

 produce so decidedly an intoxicating effect that the patient, a 

 European lady, who had taken it on native advice for dyspepsia/ 

 had to discontinue it, though otherwise benefiting under its use. 

 The Rev. J. Long (./o?fn?. Agri-ITort. Soc.,Ind., 1858^ x., p. 23) 

 also notices its intoxicating properties. En the Bid. Econ. 

 Prod, of India, ii., 504, it is stated on the authority of Dr. A. 0. 

 Mookerjee that the expressed juice of the leaves is considered 

 an anodyne and astringent, and is applied round the orbit in 

 cases of conjunctivitis. One of us has taken large doses of the 

 fresh juice of the leaves without observing any intoxicating 

 effect, and Mr. J. G. Prebble, who has expeiimented with a 

 succm prepared from the fresh herb, informs us that in large 

 and repeated doses it did not produce the slightest intoxicating 

 effect. The succus, a sample of which he has kindly supplied, 

 had the smell and taste of weak infusion of liquorice root. 



Description.— The leaves of C. aromaticn-% which are 

 broad, ovate-crenated, and veiy thick, are about 3 inches long, 

 and thickly studded with hairs, which on the upper- surface are 

 principally jointed and tapering, but a few are simple and 

 surmounted by a globular, transparent, brilliant gland like a 

 minute dcwdrop. On the under-surface the glandular hairs are 

 most numerous, and give rise to a frosted appearance. The 



