1386 INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 



1350. A. caudatum, Linn. 



Ref. :— Beddome's Handbook to the Ferns of Br. In., p. 83. 



Sans. : — Mayuras'ikha. 



Vern. : — Adhsarita-ki-jari ; Gun Kiri ; Raj-hans ; Parsiya 

 washan (Pb.). 



Habitat : — Throughout India, Ceylon and the Malay Peninsula 

 in the plains and on lower slopes of hills. 



Stipes, 2-4 inches long, tufted, wiry, spreading, dark chestnut 

 brown, tomentose, fronds 6-12 inches long, simply pinnate, 

 often elongated and rooting at the extremity, pinnae J-f inches 

 long, i inch deep, dimidiate, nearly sessile, the lower line straight 

 and horizontal, the upper rounded, more or less cut, often deeply 

 and repeatedly, the point usually blunt, the lower ones slightly 

 stalked texture coriaceous, the veins prominent ; the rachis and 

 both surfaces of the frond villose. Sori roundish or transversely 

 oblong on the edge of the lobes. (Beddome). 



Uses : — The leaves of this species are, in the island of Bourbon, 

 used in the preparation of sirop-de-capillaire. (Ainslie). Used 

 to cure cough and fever. (Ibbetson.) 



Used externally as a remedy for skin diseases. (Surg. W. 

 Barren, Bhuj.) Said to be useful in diabetes. (D. R. Thompson, 

 M. D. Madras.).— Watt's Diet. 



1351. A. Capillus-Veneris, Linn. 



Ref :— - Beddome's Hand book to the Ferns of Br. Ind., p : 84. 



Vern : — Dumtuli (Kashmir) ; Pursha ; Hansraj ; Mubaraka, 

 (Hind) ; Hanspadi (Guj). 



Habitat : — Western Himalaya ; Punjab ; common in South 

 India. Near Panchgani (Birdwood's catalogue of Matheran and 

 Mahableswar). (K. R. K.). 



Stipes suberect, rather slender, 4-9 inches long, polished, 

 blackish, naked ; fronds bipinnate, with a short terminal pinna 

 and numerous erect-patent lateral ones on each side, the lowest 

 slightly branched again ; segments \-\ inch broad, the base 

 cuneate, the outer edge rounded, deeply lobed from the circum- 

 ference in the direction of the centre, and the lobes again 

 bluntly crenated, lowest petioles \ inch long, texture pellucid 

 herbaceous, thin ; rachis and both surfaces naked ; sori roun- 



