42 MEDICAL PLANTS. 



lies about Kaira, without producing any but the 

 best effects. 



Great variety of food is well known to be essen- 

 tial to the health of a people using little of animal 

 produce; so in Gujerat we find great attention is 

 paid to the culture of leguminous esculents, but 

 they are also known to contain a large portion of 

 matter analogous to animal substances, and there- 

 fore to the hard-working labourer, they become an 

 essential article of food ; milk and ghee are general- 

 ly beyond his reach, unless in small quantity. These 

 leguminous field plants are the same as are found 

 in other parts of India. The prices of these grains 

 would afford a fairer proof of the productiveness of 

 any season in Gujerat than any others, but that of 

 milk and ghee would afford the best average state 

 of the markets. 



Medical Plants. 



Of these there are a large number ; to notice those 

 used by the natives would be useless, though many 

 of them are, I believe, very useful. We have here 



