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EULOPHIA CAMPESTRIS, Wall 



Hab. — Plains of India^ Punjab^ Oudh, Bengal^ and 



Deccan. 



EULOPHIA NUDA.iwiL 



Yig.— WigJd Ic, t. 1690; Bheede, Ho>t MaL xii., L 26? 



Hab. — Tropical Himalaya and Deccan Peninsula. The 



tubers. 



Vernacular. — Man-kand, Amber-kandj Bbui-kakali (Mar.)^ 

 Katou-kaida-maravara, Katou-tbeka-maravara {MaL)j Budbar^ 

 \Beng.)y Goruma {HincL). 



History, Uses, &C,— The tubers of these plants are 

 used indiscriminately by the natives. The vernacular name Mun- 

 hand is derived from the Sanskrit Ilanya^ which simifies '' the 



ixeck/^ and the plant is so named from a supposed resemblance 

 between its tubers and scrofulous glands in the neck ; M^n (JTT^), 

 the Marathi form of the word, is also applied to the scrofulous 

 disease in the neck. The tubers are applied externally and 

 given internally to remove the disease. They are also adminis- 

 tered internally ta those suffering from intestinal worms. 

 Rheede says of -E^. vircns : — ^'Suecus radicis si supra arborem 

 Kansjira inveniatur amarus est, alvum laxat, bilcm promovet. 

 Succus bulbi et foliorum omnem adustionem ex pulvere pyrio, 

 oleo ferventi, vel igne causatam, cum sanguine canino mixtus, 

 tollit. Pulvis venenum, sive externum sive internum expellit. 

 Si supra arborem Java^ vermes intestinorum enecat, febri 

 resistit, ventriculum corroborate flatus dissipit, Succus cum carne 

 totius plantse in formam cataplasmatis redactus apostemata 

 emoUit, et, sine dolore, ad maturitatem producit," Roxburgh 

 describes E, virem under the name of Limodontm virens, but 

 does not notice its medicinal uses. Aitchison {Notes on Pro- 

 diich of W, Afghanistan and JST. E. Persia, p. 68) says :~''E. cam- 

 pest r is is by uo means rare in the Punjab, Baluchistan, and 

 Afghanistan. Its tubers are collected in the Punjab, and make 

 up the ordinary Salop of Lahore. When the present railway 

 bridge was being constructed over the Chenab, at Wazirakid, 



