LILIAGEjE. 4G7 



attacTied in two vertical rows to the two lobes of the thick fleshy 

 receptacles ; style filiform, declinate, projecting beyond the 

 stamina ; stigma small, 3-toothed ; pericarpium a soft somewhat 

 fleshy perishable envelope which covers one, two, or three large 

 fleshy bulbfform seeds. 



LILIACEiE. 



ALOE PERRYI, Baker. 

 Fig. — Bot Mag,y 659G, Socotrine Aloe {Eng.) 

 Hab. — Socotra, 



ALOE ABYSSINICA, lam. 



Fig. — Baker in Linn. Journal^ wviii., 174. Jaferabad Aloe 



(Eng.). 



Hab. — Africa, Coasts of India. 



ALOE VKRA.Linn. 



Fig, — Flora Grmoa.y t. 341, cop. in Steph. Sf Ch.^ t 209, and 



Woodville^ vol. v. ; Nees, t, 50. Common or Barbadoes Aloe, 

 (Eng.). 



Hab. — Africa, Arabia, India. The dried juice. 



Venia€uJm\ — G-hikunv^r, Kumari [Kind)^ Ghirta-kunvar, 

 Komari [Beng.], Kora-kdnda, Koraphad (ilTar.), Kumara, 

 Kuvdra {Gu%), Shottu-katrazhai, Kumari {Tarn.), Kalabanda 

 {Tel), K^truvazha {Mai), Lola-sara {Can.). 



The drug u4/o(?s.— TLva, Yalva {Hind.), Moshabbar {Beng.), 

 Eilya, Kala-bol (Jl/rrn), Karija-polam, Irakta-polam {Tam.)^ 

 3Iusham-baram {Tel), Chenna-nayakam {Mai), Elio {Guz.), 

 Musambra (Can,). 



History, Uses, &C. — The common Aloe (Grihakanya), 

 if not a native of India, must have run wild in the country from 

 a very remote period, as the Sanskrit BynonjmB do not in any 



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