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yery closely related ; tliey are used in febrile affections by the 

 Ambs, one ounce being steeped in cold water all night, and 

 the infusion strained and taken in the morning:. In infantile 

 fevers the body is fumigated with the drug. 



The specimens were forwarded to Kew, but have not, as far as 

 we know, been identified. The Bander Abbas Jadeh, as sold in 

 the shops, consists of the flowers mixed with a few leaves and 

 stems. The flowers are about ~^^ of an inch long, and only 

 protrude a little from tlie cottony calyx; they are permanent 

 and firmly attached to the seeds, wliich are black, rugose, and 

 somewliat kidney-shaped. The odour of the drug somewhat 



resembles that of wormseed, while that of the Arabian plant is 

 more like lavender. 



POGOSTEMON PARVIFLORUS, Benth. 



Syn. — P. 2mr27tiricat(iis, Dalz. in Hook. Kew Journ. ii., 336. 

 Hab. — Sub-tropical Himalaya, Deccan Peninsula, The root 



and leaves. 

 Vernacular. 



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History, Uses, &C. — This plant hardly differs from 

 P. 7>?^;7y?<>r/6-6'^>2.?, and is very closely related to P* 2)kctrant/ioides, 

 P. ijlaber, and the variety siiavis of P. PulcJtouli. It does not 

 appear to be mentioned by Sanskrit medical writers, but the 

 root has a popular reputation as a styptic. In the Ratnagiri 

 District of Western India, the root has long been in use 

 amongst the natives as a secret remedy for the bite of the 

 Phursa snake, and in February 1871, Mr. H. B. Boswell, the 

 Collector, addressed the Civil Surgeon in the folio win o> terms : 

 ** I have the honor to send you a specimen of a root which 

 I have reason to believe to be a cure for the bite of the Phursa 



snake, and I shall feel very mucli obliged to you if you can 



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medicinal 



one so bitten. 



" It is said to stop all the after ill-effects of this poisonous 

 te, which is more than Liquor Ammonice will, I believe. 



