554 LEGUMINOS^— COMBRETACE.E. App. C. 



GuiLANDiNA BoNDUCELLA, Linn. (= Cmsnlpinia Bonducella, 

 Fleming). 



The seeds and bark, but particiilarly the former, have an intensely bitter 

 taste, and are supposed to possess powerful tonic virtues. The seeds, 

 called Bonduc nuts, are lead or ash coloured and most excessively hard. 

 Their cotyledons, powdered and combined with spices or other medicinal 

 substances, are prescribed with beneficial results in intermittent fever. 

 The root is also said to be a good tonic in dyspeptic complaints ; in fact, 

 all parts of the plant are reputed to possess medicinal properties. The 

 plant is a prickly, trailing shrub, with abruptly twice-pinnate leaves, each 

 pinna consisting of from five to eight pairs of oval leaflets, and bears 

 racemes of nisty-yellow flowers. The Tamuls call it " Kalichikai ;" the 

 Telingas " Getsakaia ;" the Hindus " Cat-caleyi " and " Natacaranja ;" and 

 the Cinghalese " Koombooroo-wel." It is a common plant throughout the 

 tropics of both hemispheres. 



Phaseolus teilobus, Both. (= Dolichos trilohus, Linn.). 



Ainslie says that " this plant was brought to Dr. F. Hamilton in Bahar, 

 where he was informed by the Vytians of that district that the fresh herb 

 was given in decoction in cases of irregular fever." It is a procumbent, 

 spreading, herbaceous plant, with leaves composed of three roundish, entire, 

 or three-lobed leaflets on long stalks, and bears a few pea-like flowers at 

 the ends of long ascending stalks. 



Ormocarpum sennoides, D. C. (= Hedysarum sennoides, Willd.). 



A shrub with glutinous hairy shoots, unequally pinnate leaves, and 

 short axillary racemes bearing a few pea-like flowers, producing jointed 

 pods. The decoction of the roots of this shi-ub, which is called "Caat 

 Moningie " in the Tamul language, and " Adivie moonaga " in Telinga, is 

 prescribed by the native physicians as a tonic and stimulant in fevers, and 

 a liniment made of the powdered bark and sesamum oil is applied externally 

 in paralysis and lumbago. 



COMBRETACE^. 



Terminalia tomentosa, W. et A. (= Terminalia (data, Roth.). 



This is a large tree -nath deeply-cracked bark, and nearly opposite, 

 linear, oblong, obtuse leaves, somewhat cordate at the base, crenulate, and 

 clothed with pubescence imderneath. It is the " Peea-sal " or " Usan " of 

 the Bengalese ; the " Nella madoo" of the Telingas; and the " Aans"of 

 the Hindus. The reddish-brown, cracked bark has a strong but not 

 unpleasant astringent taste, and is classed amongst the febrifuge medicines 

 by the native doctors : powdered and mixed with oil it is employed in 

 apthae. 



