316 VRTICAGB^. 



sprinkled with hot water and the juice extracted; in thia is 

 rubbed down 2 parts each of the barks of both trees. The 

 preparation may be administered twice a day in doses of | of 

 a seer. The Marathi name is Chandvar. The bark contains 

 18 '4 per cent, of tannic acid, giving a blue-black precipitate 

 with ferric chloride, and the air-dried bark leaves 11 per cent, 

 of mineral matter on incineration. 



Chrozophora plicata, ^- Juss.^ Burm. Ind,, t 62,/ It 



is a common weed on cultivated ground, and in the bottoms of 

 dried up tanks in many parts of tropical India in the cold season. 

 It is reputed to have alterative properties, and is mentioned by 

 Ainslie as a plant which Dr- F. Hamilton had brought to him 

 in Behar, as one of those which was supposed to have virtues in 

 leprous affections ; the dry plant is made into a decoction to 

 which is added a little mustard. {Mat. Ind., ii,, 398.) 



Sebastiania Chamselea, MillUArg.^ the Cadi-avanacu 



of Rheede (ii., 34), and the Bhui-erandi of the Concan, is a small 

 plant, with linear^ finely serrated leaves and small spinous cocci, 

 the juice of which in wine is used as an astringent ; a ghrita 



head in vertigo. 



applied 



UETICACE^. 



GIRONNIERA RETICULATA, Thwaites. 



Fig,— Bedd. FL Syli\ t 313. Syn., Celtis retieulala. 



Hab. — Sikkim, Himalaya, Assam^ Burma, Pegu, Deccan 

 PeBinsulaj Ceylon. Tlie wood. 



FernaeuZar.— Koditani (raw.),Kho-maiiig (iVt7^tVi),N^riikiya- 

 ood {Ind. Bazars) . 



History, Uses. &c 



appear to be 



mentioned by Indian medical writers, nor can we find any 

 record of its collection in India for medicinal use, tLe bazars 

 being suppHed from Ceylon, where it has probably been in use 

 from a remote period. 



