346 VRTICAGtlJS. 



Rheede notices a similar use of the plant. {HorU Mal.^ m., 

 t. 55.) The juice of the bark has a reputation in liver disease; 

 dosCj 1 tola in milk, 



Ficus asperrima, Roxh. Wight Ict.Q^Zy—^tA-Mm^t 



{HincL), Kara-karbuda [Tel)^ Khargas [Can\ Kharvat, Kharoti 

 {Ma)\)y a native of Central India and the Deccan Peninsula, 

 remarkable for the roughness of its leaves, which are used as 

 sand paper by the natives, and haA^e been given the name of 

 Folhas da raspa by the Portuguese, is a small tree with ovate, 

 alternate, very rough leaves of a pale green colour, at the apex 

 of the petiole and in the axils of the leaf -veins there are small 

 shining green glands as in F. hlsjjida^ except that the glands 

 are more completely in the axils, and appear closed, whereas m 

 the latter plant they have a distinct stoma. The leaves owe 

 their roughness to the presence of calcareous hairs. Both the 

 juice of the plant and the bark are well-known remedies for 

 glandular enlargements of the abdomen, such as liver and 

 spleen. Kheede says that the root taken in the morning with 

 palm vinegar *^ visceruni ardorera compescit." The bark is 

 brown, scabrous and brittle, and has a bitter and astringent 

 taste. 



Chemical composition. — The bark contains a crystalline 

 principle soluble in alcohol, which is precipitated by alkaloidal 

 reagents, and is not coloured by the stronger acids. It also 

 contains an organic acid precipitated by gelatine, and darkened 

 in colour by ferric chloride. The ash of the air-dried bark 

 afforded 18-4 per cent, of white calcareous ash> 



Ficus hispida, Linn, Wight le,, it. 638, 641, the 



F. dcemonunioi Koenig, is the Kakodumbara or Kakodumbarika, 



It is the 



'* crows' ficr 



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K^t-giilarof Hindustan, the Kako-dumar of Bengal, the Bokhara 

 or Bhed-umhar of Bombay, and the Pe-attis of Madras. 

 Eheede says that the fruit boiled in goat's milk is used in 



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Sheriff on account of its emetic properties. The shrub 



