1180 INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 



Use : — The fruit is given as a remedy in amenorrhea and 

 colic. (Stewart,) 



1168. Gironniera reticulata, Thwaites, h.f.b.i., 

 v. 486. 



Vern. : — Koditani (Tain.) ; Khomanig (Nilgiri) ; Nara 

 Kiyaood (Jnd. Bazars). 



Habitat. Sikkim Himalaya, Assam ; Khasia Mts. ; Deccan 

 Peninsula ; on the Ghats from S. Canara to Travancore. 



An evergreen, lofty or small tree, 30-40ft. Branchlets slender, 

 glabrous. Leaves entire or serrulate at the tip, coriaceous, 

 penni-nerved ; secondary nerves 10-12 pair, impressed on the 

 upper, and very prominent on the pair underside, 3-7in. Flow- 

 ers dioecious. Male cymes shortly peduncled, branches short, 

 many-fid. Male flowers rarely glabrous ; sepals 5, broad, obtuse, 

 imbricate ; stamens 5, erect in bud ; pistillode woolly. Female 

 flowers : — Sepals narrow, acute; ovary sessile ; style central ; arms 

 2, filiform, ovate, pendulous. Drupe usually 2-keeled, about as 

 long as the pedicel, J~f in. long ; endocarp hard ; embryo 

 contorted. 



Uses: — Thunberg says: — "The tree is called by the 

 Dutch Strunthont, and by the Cingalese Urenne, on account 

 of its disgusting odour, which resides especially in the thick 

 stem and the larger branches. The smell of it so perfectly 

 resembles that of human ordure, that one cannot perceive the 

 smallest difference between them. When the tree is rasped, and 

 the raspings are sprinkled with water, the stench is quite in- 

 tolerable. It is nevertheless taken internally by the 

 Cingalese as an efficacious remedy. When scraped fine and 

 mixed with lemon juice, it is taken internally, as a purifier of 

 the blood in itch and other cutaneous eruptions, the body being 

 at the same time anointed with it externally." (Travels, Vol 

 IV. p. 234). 



1169. Humulus Lu/pulus, Linn., h.f.b.i., v. 487. 

 Habitat :— Cultivated in N.-W. Himalaya. 



A perennial, twining, scabrid herb. Rootstock stout branch- 

 ed ; stem tall, scabrid or prickly, with reversed bristles. 



