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kinnon, after an extended trial, says that kamala is a safe and 

 efficient remedy for tape-worm, and more certain than either 

 turpentine or kousso. Dr. Anderson, an army surgeon in India, 

 also speaks highly of its value. He writes, " The worm is gene- 

 rally passed entire, and almost always dead, and in all the cases 

 I have examined (fifteen) I was able to detect the head." It is, 

 however, but little esteemed in this country as an anthelmintic, 

 fern rhizome being generally regarded as more efficacious. Grarrod 

 says, however, that he has used it with success in some cases. 

 Kamala has also been used externally in this country in herpetic 

 ring- worm. In India kamala is also frequently employed as an ex- 

 ,ternal application in scabies and various other affections of the skin. 

 It is also used in India for dyeing silk a rich orange-brown. The 



dye is also known at Aden under the name of Waras or Wurrus* 



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Pharmacographia, p. 515 ; Ph. JL, vol. xii (1853), 386, 589, and 

 vol. xvii (1858), 408; Per. Mat. Med., by B. and R, p. 536"; 

 U. S. Disp., by W. and B., p. 744 ; Gar. Mat. Med, p. 312. 



DESCRIPTION OF PLATE. 



Drawn from Indian specimens in the herbarium of the Brit. Museum, ibe 

 male plant collected by Wallich ; the female collected by Dr. Thomson. 1. A 

 male panicle. 2. A male flower. 3. Extremity of branch of a female plant. 

 4. A female flower. 5. Vertical section of the same. 6. Transverse section 

 of the ovary. 7 and 8. Fruit. 9. Front and 10. Back view of a seed. 

 11. Some of the small glands removed from the capsule. (2, 4 6, and 8 

 enlarged. 11 greatly magnified.) 



