58 INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 



generally used as a refrigerant, and also as a gentle Laxative. 

 It has been extensively used as an alterative in chronic rheuma- 

 tic and venereal diseases. I exhibit two preparations : —(1) A 

 liquid extract obtained from the root. Dose one dram iri water, 

 or goat's milk, thrice daily. (2) A syrup of the leaves. Dose 

 one to two drams. Both the preparations were made lor me 

 by Mr. M. C. Pareira of Bandra, for exhibition at this Congress." 

 (Surgeon Kirtikar at the Pharmacological Section, Melbourne 

 Medical Congress, Australasia. See Proceedings, p. 947-1889 , 



44. C. Leaeba, B.C. h.f.b.l, i. 102. 



Vern. : — Vallur, illar-billar ; parwatti (Guj.) ; vehri (Pb. and 

 Sindhi) ; Ullar-billar iSindh). 



Habitat: — Drier parts of Western India, the Punjab, Sindh, 

 and the Carnatic valleys, ; below Simla, plains of India ascending 



to 3,000 ft. 



Part used : — The whole plant. 



A climbing shrub. Branchlets puberulous, long, slender ; 

 leaves very variable, linear-oblong, oblong or trapezoid, entire 

 or 3-5-lobed, glabrate, usually obtuse and mucronate ; base 

 cuneate, rounded, young, hoary, old, often glaucous on botlr 

 surfaces. Pedicels |-£ in. Male flowers fascicled in small 

 sessile clusters in the axils, and on . woody tubercles. 

 Females solitary, 1-3, sessile, at the end of short axillary stalks. 

 Drupes dark purple, ^—\ in. 



Uses: — It is used in Sindh and Afghanistan in the treatment 

 of intermittent fevers and as a substitute for Gocaalus Indicus, 



45. Pericampylus ineaaus, Miers. h.f.b.l, 

 i. 102. 



Vern. :— Baiak Kanta (B). 



Habitat : — Sikkim, Assam, the Khasia hills, Chittagong, 

 throughout the Eastern Peninsula, Malay Peninsula and Archi- 

 pelago. 



A tomentose climbing shrub. Stem cylindrical and grooved. 

 Wood in wedges, separated by broad medullary rays. Branchlets 



