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III.— MENISPERMAGE^, DC. Prod. 1, p95. 



THE COCCULUS TRIBE, Lind. Nat. Syst. 31. 



VII. — COCCULUS, Dioecia Hexandria. From Coccas, cochi- 

 neal, the berries of some being of a scarlet colour. 



1. C Palmatus, DC. Prod. 1, p 515. — Columba root; native 

 of Mosambique ; garden Hewra. Roots received from the late Fur- 

 donjee Murzbanjee Weyd, a very zealous promoter of the European 

 materia medica, and author of a Gujarati work on domestic 

 medicine, well known to most of his Parsee brethren ; leaves large, 

 tomentose, 6-lobate ; flowers small ; fruit size of a pea ; has occa- 

 sionally flowered and produced abortive seeds ; in the dry season it 

 withers, and in May the roots begin to shoot. This plant is much 

 cultivated in the Mauritius, and is much valued in medicine for its 

 tonic and antiseptic properties. The C Indicus, largely imported 

 into England for adulterating beer, belongs to this family. 



IV.— PAPAVERACEJE, JiCProd. 1, p 125. 



THE POPPY TRIBE, Lind. Nat. Syst. I, p 8. 



VIII.— ARGEMONE/ Polyandria Monogynia. 



1. A Mexicana, W. and A. 69; Wight's lllust., part 2, t 11 ; 

 Bot. Mag. t. 243.— Yellow-flowering Mexican Thistle. Fico del' 

 mferno of the Spaniards ; native of Mexico. No plant has esta- 

 blished itself in India more widely than this, and it is now 

 found in all the tropical and sub-tropical parts of the world. In the 

 Concan the poor people may be seen collecting the seeds for the 

 extraction of oil. The yellow juice is used as an application to indo- 

 lent ulcers, and for the removal of specks on the cornea. A white- 

 flowered variety was introduced from Bengal, but it has died out. 



IX.— PAPAVER, Polyandria Polygynia, Lam. t. 451; 

 Gaert. t. 60. — Native of Asia Minor. 



2. P SoMNiPERUM. " Afoo-ke-Thar.' Ainslie Mat. Ind. ], 

 p 326, and 2, p 339 ; Eng. Bot. t. 2145.— The Poppy, of which 

 there are several varieties. It is extensively cultivated in 

 Malwa, and in a few parts of Guzerat. Its cultivation in the 

 British provinces of Western India is prohibited on fiscal 

 grounds. The expressed juice of the seeds is a very useful 

 remedy in infantile bowel-complaints. The seeds afford a bland 

 oil, and are much used as an ingredient in the composition of 

 curry-powder, under the name " Kuskus." 



