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in certain affections of the eyes, and the leaves when chewed, 

 are said to destroy the power of the tongue to appreciate the 

 taste of disagreeable medicines (Dymock). 



A syrup of the dried fruits is used in the Punjab for bron- 

 chitis. 



290. Z. ragosa, Lamk., h.f.bj., i, 636. 



Syn. :— Z. glabra, Eoxb, 206. 



Vern. :•— Suran, churan (Hindi) ; Dhaush (Oudh) ; Sekra 

 (San tli.) ; Todali (Mai.) Mayanksi (Lower Burma.) ; Tabu, Mitha 

 Tabu (Upper Burma). Toran, Chnrna (Bomb). 



Trimen; — (Sinhalese), Maha-eraminiya, (Tamil) Churai. 



Eabim:— Eastern Himalaya, 2,000ft. Behar. Shan hills 

 to 4000ft. Sub-Himalayan tract, from the Ganges eastward, 

 ascending to 2,000ft. Burma, South India, Western Peninsula ; 

 Ceylon, moist low country to 2,000 ft ; common. 



A large, straggling or climbing bush, with long virgate 

 branches, fulvous, tometose, when young. Leaves 2-3in., broadly 

 oval or rotundate, unequal, sided, oblique at base, very short- 

 acuminate, denticulate, glabrous above, densely fulvous tomen- 

 tose, becoming glabrous beneath. Petiole fin., prickles usually 

 solitary, numerous, strong, broad-based, recurved or nearly 

 straight, heavy. Flowers greenish, very small, numerous, 

 in tomentose, pedunculate cymes about 1 in., arranged 

 along one side of short, usually leafless, lateral branches. 

 Calyx hairy outside, lobes ovate. Petals O ; dark, 5- 

 lobed ; styles 2, connate at base. Fruit small, J-|in. Drupe 

 edible, sweet, pinkish when ripe, pyriform globose, apiculate, 

 smooth. Stone very thin, 1-celled, 1- seeded. 



Use : — The flowers, with an equal quantity of the petioles 

 of the betel leaf and half as much lime, are given in 4-grain 

 pills twice a day for menorrhagia (Dymock.) 



291. Rhamnits dahuricus, Pall., ii.f.b.i., 1.639. 



Syn. : — R. Virgatus, Eoxb. 203. 



Vern. : — Chato, chedwala, chadua (II.); Tsapo, mail (Tibet); 

 Spiti (Kumaon) ; Phipai, dadur tadru, setapajja, hangi, mamral, 



