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(Than-mo), whicli, according to Dr. Packman, has considerable 

 anthelmintic powers. Qiiisqualis Indica of Linneiis ; the inhabi- 

 tants of Java, and the Chinese hving at Macao (especially) employ 

 this remedy. By the latter it is termed worm-fruit, Cay-thim. 

 VcBrnonia anthelmintica of Willdenow. Dr. Waring says that the 

 seeds of this plant are "held in the highest repute amongst the 

 people of Southern India." It is a small annual, extensively dis- 

 tributed throughout the Peninsula. Amongst the remaining drugs 

 I have only space to give the names of the following, on the autho- 

 rity of Waring : — Oil from the pericarp of AzardaricMa Indica, 

 root of Melia Azadaracli, "often confounded" with the above; 

 seeds oi Melia sempervirens ; kernel of the mango {Mangifer Indica) ; 

 hairs of Mucuna jprurita ; bark of Alstonia scholaris ; juice of Ascle- 

 pias Gurassavica; the peacock's fan-fern {Asplenium radiatum) ; 

 leaves of Bridelia spinosa ; oil of Gitrullus colocynthus ; Galatrojois 

 gigantea ; Emhelia Bibes ; Uupliorhia thymifolia ; Sphceranthus In- 

 dicus ; Guilandina Bonducella ; Tamarindus Indicus ; Indigofera 

 tinctofia ; Gadaba Indica ; Bryonia callosa and B. epigea ; Acaly- 

 joha Indica ; Polanisia icosandra ; Hugonia mystax ; Morinda um- 

 hellata ; Bauhinia variegata; Agatholes chirayta; Gurcuma Zerumhet ; 

 Gyperus rotundus ; Soya viridifoUa; Dalhergia Sisso ; Ghenopodium 

 album. 



