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oblong, pointed shape, about the size of a pistachio not, of a deep black 

 colour, and a firm, compa6l substance. Its taste is bitterish, and strongly 

 astringent. The Zengi Har is, as far as I can leam, more frequently used 

 in medicine, by the Hindus, than any of the otlier Myrohalans being very 

 generally employed by them as a purgative. It operates briskly, but 

 without occasioning heat or irritation. Persons liable to rediahdancy of 

 bile, habitual costiveness, or any other complaint which requires the fre- 

 quent use of gentle laxatives, will find this one of the most convenient 

 which they can use. 



Terminalia CiTJtiNA. (RoxB, MS.) Caducaii, Telinga. 



This tree is a native of the mountainous parts of the Korihern Circars. 

 The fruit is the Myrobalafius Citrina of the shops. It is used in medicine in 

 the southern part of the Peninsula, but is not known to the Hindu pra6li- 

 tioners in Bengal. The chief use of it, however, to the southward, is as a 

 mordant for fixing the colours, in printing their beautiful chintzes, 



Trioonklla F^NUM Gr^cum, (W.) MetliiM'^li. Mefhi/S. 



MuuRAY, II. 447. 



WOODVILLE, HI. 487. 



Valeriana J atamans j. ( Roxb. ) Jatamansi, H. Jatamansi, S, 



The vegetable which aifords the Indian Kard, so celebrated by the an- 

 cients, as a perfume, remained altogether unknown to naturalists, until it 



dried, it is of the size of a raisin, and is black ; whence its name. (Aswed black, or Zengi 

 negro.) 



4. H. Chim, gathered when the nut has acquired some degree of hardness. The dried 

 fruit is of a green colour, inclining to yellow. 



5. JI. Asfer, when approtiching to mstturity. The fruit, when dry, is of a reddish yel- 

 low; whence the name. ' Cy^ff^r^ yellow.) 



6. //. CdbuUj when the ftuit is come to full maturity. 



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