MEDICINAL PLANTS AND DRUGS. ^GS' 



XuMiNUM Cy 311 NUM. (W.) Jii'd S^) H. Jivaca S. 



Murray. I. 391. 



WOODVILLE. III. 52L 



Curcuma Zongj. (W. ) Iialcli.(~) H. Haridrd S. 



Curcuma Zedoaria. (Roxe. MS.) MrUsiS^) II. Nirhis/ S. 



C Murray. V. 82. 

 K(£mpferia Roiunda. < 



'^ (WOODVILLE. II. S6L 



. B'p^ Ch. — Spikes lateral. Bulbs small, with long yellow palmated tubers. 



Leaves broad, lanceolar, subsessile on their sheath. Sericeous underneath. Coloor, 

 uniform green. (Roxb. MS.) 



From the roots of several species of Ciircwma, that are found in Bengal, 

 the natives prepare a farinaceous powder, which they call TikJmrS^^ It is in 

 every respe6l similar to the powder prepared from the root of the Maran-^ 

 to. Arundinacea, or arrow-root; and is often sold for it in the Calcutta 

 shops. 



Daxura Metel. (W.) Bliaiura.^^') \\. D'hustiira S, 



C Murray I. 670. 

 (WOODVILLE IL 338. 



The D. Stramo7iiumy which is the species used in medicine in Europei 

 is not found in Hindustan* but the D. Metel grows wild in every part pf 

 the country. The soporiferous and intoxicating qualities of the seeds are , 

 well known to the inhabitants ; and it -appears, from the records of the 

 native Courts of Justice, that these seeds are still employed, for the same 

 licentious and wicked purposes, as they were formerly, in the time of 



(1) Jeera. ' (2) Iluhke. ("> NirLissee. (4) Teehhoqr. (5) Vhulooni. 



* In the Asiatic Researches, VI. 351. Colonel HAnuwiCKt: enumerates the Datura Stra- 

 monium among llie plants which he found in the Sirinagur country ; but he afterwards as» " 

 ccrtained, that th<; plant which he met with, was the Datura Mdel; and has candidly autMor- 

 izcd mc to notice the lOibtuke. . 



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