264 EUPHORBIA CE^. 



Commerce. — Two kinds of Avala are found in commerce, 

 one entire, and the other cut up, and the nut removed. The 

 fruit is collected in many parts of India. Yalue, about Ra. 32 

 per candy of 7 cwts. 



PHYLLANTHUS RETICULATUS, Poh: 



Y'lg.—A. Jnss. Tent. Euiihorh. 19, t. 4, / 1 ; Wight Ic, 

 t. 1899; Burm. Thes. Zeyl, t 88. 



Hab.— Throughout tropical India. The leaves and bark. 



Vernacular.— Viu]o\i {HincL), Pillagiida {Tel.), Pi^Umyr 

 {Tarn.), Paukushi {Benff.), Pavana, Puvana {Mar.}, Karaohi 

 {Sind.), Datwan {Guz.), Katu-niruri (MaL). 



History, Uses, &C.— Ainslie {Mat. hid., ii., 223) gires 

 Krishna-kamboji as the Sanskrit name of this plant. Kamboja, 

 " coming from Kamboj/' is applied in that language to several 

 plants, but none of them have been identified with P. rcticulatus, 

 nor does it appear to be mentioned in the Mghantas under any 

 other name. The leaves and bark are used as a diuretic and 

 cooling medicine and as an alterative. Ainslie says :— " i-'^^ 

 bark, as it appears in the Indian bazars, is commonly m 

 pieces about a foot long, and as thick as the wrist, of a 

 dark colour outside, . and of a faint sweetish taste ; i* i3 

 considered as alterative and attonuant, and is prescribed in 

 decoction, in the quantity of 4 ounces or more twice daily. ^ 

 the Concan the Juice of the leaves is made into a pill with cam- 

 phor and cubebs, and dissolved in the mouth as a remedy for blee 

 ing from the gums ; it is also, along with the juice of other 

 alterative plants, reduced to a thin extract, and made into a 

 pill with aromatics. This pill is given twice a day, rubbed down 

 in milk, as an alterative in heat of blood. 



Description. -^Shrubby, climbing, primary branches 

 twiggy : voung shoots pubescent ; florifcrous branchlets angular ; 

 leaves oval-obtuse, bifarious; flowers axillary, aggregated, 

 several males and x^sually one female; male flowers purplish ; 

 berric . size of a pea, dark-purple. This plant is common near 

 water, and extends to Sind, where it is found in the forests of 



