S75 EWVMERATION OF PLANTS 



ber of willows, all produced from the same soufrr, 

 iiont' but male plants have been found, and the 

 flowers hcxandrous. They grow in plenty on the 

 banks of the Ganges above an<l below Hurilxcav, 

 acquire the height of forty feet, in circumference 

 seldom exceeding thirty inches. llie wood is 

 Mhite, and very tragile. 



BIOECIA PENTANDRIA. 



Xa77tho.rylo}h — A small thorny bushy tree, growing 

 on the sides of the mountains, about Nataana, and 

 other places. Leaves unequally pinnated; leaflets 

 sessile, from three to six pairs, the lower pair 

 smallest, increasing upwards, the terminal one be- 

 ing the largest, oblong-lance, obscurcTy and. dis- 

 tantly serrated, dotted, smooth, largest about tliree 

 inches long and one broad, betw een each pair of 

 leaflets, a solitary streight rigid prickle. Petiole 

 winged, along the middle prominent. Flowers in- 

 conspicuous; on short, axillary, compound, ra- 

 cemes (both on male and female plants). The 

 short bunches of fruit ripen in jMaij, the capsule 

 about the size and shape of a small pepper-corn, 

 these and every part of the plant, possess an aro- 

 matic and durable pungency. Tht natives scour 

 their teeth with the young branches ; and chew the 



V capsules as a remedy for the tootli-ach. They be- 

 lieve that the capsule, Avith the seeds bruised, being 

 tluown into water, renders it tit for drinking, by 

 correcting any noxious quality which it may have. 

 The branches cut into walking sticks, with their 

 thorns rounded off, have a formidable appearance, 

 and may -properly be called Herculean clubo. It 

 differs nmch from the figure in Catesby's Carolina, 



Cannabis Sut'iva. — This plant is cultivated in several 

 parts of the mountains, for two purposes: one for 

 the manufacture of a coarse thick cloth, which 

 the poorer people wear, and the other in making 

 an intoxicating drug. Much used, nii>;ed with 

 tobaccO; ill suioking, by the p. oplc of many parts 



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