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Asst.-Surgeon Amrita Lai Deb of Howrah, has found it very 

 useful in dysentery. Drs. Bird and Pilcher have also favour- 

 ably reported on its efficacy in that disease. (Vide I. M. G., 

 Oct., 1878 ; p. 281.) 



612. Pavetta Indica, Linn, h.f.b.l, hi. 150. 



Syn. : — Ixora Pavetta, Roxb. 129. 



Sans ' — Pappana. 



Vern. :— Kukura-chura (B.) ; Papat, tartari (Bom.j ; Pavuttay 

 (Tarn.); Malleamothe (Mai.) ; Paputta, Nooni-papoota (Tel.); 

 Kankra (Hind.). 



Habitat :— Throughout India, from the Western Himalaya 

 in Garwhal to Bhotan, and southwards to Ceylon. 



A large shrub. Bark thin, smooth, brownish grey. Wood 

 white to light brown, hard, close-grained (Gamble). Branches 

 numerous, spreading, twigs cylindric, glabrous, or tomentose. 

 Branchlets obtusely quadrangular, says Brand is. Leaves lan- 

 ceolate or elliptic-lanceolate, sometimes obovate, acuminate, 

 subacute, glabrous on both sides, dark green and shining above, 

 with scattered large, thickened, hard warts, more prominent 

 above than beneath ; blade 3-9in. (Trimen), 4-9in. (Brandis), 

 petiole i-Jin., stipules connate, triangular, acute, thin, deciduous. 

 Flowers very numerous on pedicels, longer than Calyx, white, 

 rather fragrant. Cymes copious, lax, corymbose, terminal, 

 glabrous, often with bracts below the branches. Calyx-segments, 

 very small, tooth-like. Corolla-tube about Jin.. Lobes obtuse, 

 about half length of tube ; style exserted for fully fin., very 

 slender ; stigma slightly clavate. Fruit £-§in. diam., nearly 

 glabrous, polished, dark. 



Uses: — The root is bitter, possessing aperient qualities, and 

 is commonly prescribed by native doctors in visceral obstruc- 

 tions ; given in powder to children, the dose is about a drachm 

 or more (Ainslie). 



Boiled in water, a fomentation is made from the leaves for 

 hemorrhoidal pains. The root is pulverised and mixed with 

 ginger and rice water, and given in dropsy ( Rheede). 

 Mr. H. M. Bird wood calls it " Matheran coffee. 



