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no other sensible effects. It was found extremely variable in its 

 action, in some a drachm causing vomiting, whilst in others 

 half an ounce induced only slight nausea. Dr. Johnston extended 

 its use to other skin diseases with advantage. Dr. Royle (op. 

 cit., p. 352) states that the leaves and small twigs of the Deodara 

 are also brought down to the plains, being much employed in 

 native medicine. They may, doubtless, possess some mild 

 terebinthinate properties. (Ph. India.) 



Tn Kangra, the wood is pounded with water on a stone, and 

 the paste applied to temples to relieve headache. (Stewart.) 



The wood is bitter, useful in fever, costiveness, piles and 

 pulmonary complaints. (S. Arjun.) 



1223. Abies Webbiana, Kindley, h.f.b.l, v. 654. 



Vern, : — Paludar, rewari (Jhelam) ; Badar, budar, tung 

 (Kashmir) ; Dhunu, rag, rail, pe, re, salle, sara (Chamba) ; 

 Tos (Kulu) ; Spun, pun, krok, kalrei (Kanawar) ; Morinda 

 (Jaunsar) ; Bang, dodhma, ragha, teliya or chili ragha (South- 

 Eastern Garhwal) ; Raunsla or rai salla (Kosi River) ; Ragha, 

 rao ragha, ransla, raisalla (Kumaon) ; Gobria, sulah (Nepal); 

 Dumshing (Bhutia.) 



Habitat: — Temperate and Sub-alpine Himalaya. 



An ever-green tree. Bark greyish-brown, rough. Wood white, 

 soft. "Attains 150ft. Girth of trunk 30ft., says J. D. Hooker. 

 " Usually stunted and gnarled " (Brandis). Josiah Hoopes, of 

 Philadelphia, in his Treatise on Conifers, New York, 1889, says 

 " A Webbiana is a native of the Himalayas and the Alps of 

 Goosainthan in Nepal at elevations from 9,500 to 12,000 or 

 13,000ft., where it attains to the height of 70 or 80ft., forming 

 a large, pyramidal- shaped tree, with broad, spreading branches, 

 and in adult specially with a rather tabular formed top." 

 Kanjilal describes the plant thus :-— " A lofty tree, with a 

 densely, cylindric crown, pre-eminently shade-enduring ; branches 

 pendular ; branchlets stout, stiff, spreading horizontally ; bark, on 

 young stems, dark-brown or grey ; and split into long and 

 narrow scales on old trees. Leaves 1-2 by^in., narrow-linear, 

 narrowed into a short petiole, spirally arranged, but decimate 

 on two sides to appear distichous, glossy, dark-green above, 



