N. 0. LORANTHACEiR. 1115 



Perianth tubular, 2-dentate. Fruit ol)long or globose, orange- 

 yellow, or bright-scarlet when ripe, enclosed in the succulent 

 perianth. Seed dark-brown, shining. 



Uses : — The natives of Kanawar are stated by Longden to 

 eat it as a sort of chatni. As a chatni, it is recommended for 

 lung complaints in a Tibetan Pharmacopeia. 



The Siberians and Tartars make a jelly from these berries 

 and eat them with milk and cheese, whilst the inhabitants 

 of the Gulf of Bothnia prepare from them a sort of rob, which 

 they use as a condiment with fish. ® • In some districts 

 of France a sauce is made from these berries and eaten with 

 fish or meat. A decoction of them is said to be useful in 

 cutaneous eruptions. * * The roots of the plant are long 

 and straggling, and often assist in binding the loose sand 

 on which it grows. (Sowerby's English. Botany, Vol. VIII. p. 83.) 



1105. H. salicifolia, Don. h.f.b.i., v. 203. 



Vern. : — Ashuk (Nepal) ; Lhala (Bhotan and Lepcha) ; Surch, 

 silts, kala bis, tserdkar, dhurchuk, tarwa-chuk, chuma (Pb ). 



Habitat : — Temperate Himalaya, from Jammu to Sikkim. 



A willow-like shrub, 10-20ft. high, with lateral thorns. 

 Very similar in appearance and hardly specifically different 

 from H. rhamnoides. Bark dark-grey, brown, soft, Jin thick, 

 cleft in deep vertical furrows and shallow cross ones into 

 somewhat rectangular ones. Leaves membranous, glabrous or 

 pubescent above, 2-4in., dull-green, linear-lanceolate, densely 

 clothed beneath with white or rusty stellate hairs and some 

 circular scales, so also are in the petioles and branchlets covered. 



Use : — The fruit is employed in cases of lung disease. (Punjab 

 Products ) 



N. 0. LORANTHACEJE. 



1106. Viscum album, Linn., h.f.b.i., v. 223. 

 Vern. : — Turapauli (Afg.) ; Bhangra, banda, bamba, kahbang 

 (Pb.) ; Bambal, wahal, ahalu (Pb.) ; Dibk (Arab.) ; Ban, banda 



