1388 INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 



diuretic and emmenagogue." Native writers do not distinguish 

 the various species of Adiantum. (Dr. Dymock.) 



A vapor bath medicated by a decoction from this plant is 

 regarded useful in fever. (Dr. Emerson.) It is recommended 

 by Hakims for hydropholia. It is resolvent and also used for 

 the prevention of hair from falling. For internal use given 

 in the form of a Syrup. (Asst. Surg. J. N. Dey, Jeypore). 

 Very useful as a mild tonic, especially during convalescence 

 from fevers (Dr. J. Anderson, Bijnor.) — Watt's Diet. 



1353. A. flabellulatum, Linn. 



Ref :— Beddome's Handbook to the Ferns of Br. In., p. 88. 



Habitat : — Nepal, Assam, Khasia Hills and Sylhet. 



Scales on rhizome, linear, long, lax, chestnut coloured ; fronds 

 flabellate, bipartite-pedately divided, tripinnate ; secondary 

 pinnee lanceolate-acuminated, pinnules glabious, subcoriaceous- 

 chartaceous obliquely cuncate or semi-orbicular, superior base 

 truncate, superior margin 2-4 lobed and serrate-dentate in the 

 sterile one lobes soriferous, involucres large the breadth of the 

 lobe, oblong straight rarely a little curved, hard coriaceous, 

 stipes elongated ebeneous scabrous below ; the rest as well as 

 the slender rachis glossy and blobious. (Beddome). 



Uses : — I was told by a Manipuri Sepoy that the root was 

 used medicinally (Watt). 



Cheilanthes : — Sori terminal or nearly so, on the veins, at first 

 small subglobose, afterwards more or less confluent, indusium 

 formed of the changed reflexed margin, roundish and distinct, 

 or more or less confluent, but not quite continuous ; fronds 

 subcoriaceous in texture, mostly under 12 in. often under 6 

 inches long, 3-4 pinnatifid, veins free. 



1354. C. tenuifolia, Lw. 



Ref. :— Bed. Handbook. Ferns Br. I. p. 92. 



Vern. : — Nanha, dodhari (Sant.) 



Habitat : — Madras Presidency, common in the plains ; (dry 

 localities) and on low hills up to 4,000 ft. Bengal plains, in 

 Assam, Chittagong, Dakka, Chota Nagpore, Khasya hills upto 

 35,000, ft. Sikkim and Malay Peninsula. (Beddome.) 



