INDIAN PLANTS • m. 



ra, the Bkdm Pracasa : Thefc two drugs, are procured from 3/lo^ 

 rung, and the adjacent diftri<£ts. CJhira Cdcoli refembles the rool; 

 ■of the Pivari (Ajparagus racemofus), and is of a white colotir^ 

 a fragrant fmell, and fall of a>inilky fapi The Cdcdliis of limilar 

 form and chara'-leri bufe of a dark hue; They are both fweet 

 and cooling, they remove ■ fever, and correct a vitiated ftate of 

 the blood and 'bile : the roor of the Viddn (Convulvulus paniculatus) 

 stnd thQ Afwdgandka (Phy falls &xiiofa), are feverallf fubilituSefe 

 for the Ca<:oU and CJhira cacoVa 

 €ac€-^!'a Of Caccolaca, This fubftance is -always clafi^d among fi:' the 

 perfume?, and forms- one of the ingredients indifferent aromatic 

 corapOiitions,. along with agallochuEij frankineenfe, camphor^ 

 mufk, faffron, fpices^ and other iimilar articles. It is procuerd 

 in the bazar in different degrees of frefhrnefs, and is a berry of a mors 

 or kfs irregularly oval form : when frelhefl it is invefted' with a thick 

 green fcbaoeous and fragrant coat, but in a more advanced fiate, 

 this fhrinks fo as to be fcarcely difcernible from the fliell whi^h 

 is of avgreyifli •■ colour J in either ftate the centre is nlled with a 

 refinous inflammable fubftance, of a ilrong and fpicy odour fo- 

 luble but very fparingly in water, and more abundantly m fpirit. The 

 Mftory of this fubftance is not -given in any of the medical works 

 I have confulted, .nor ar£ its cbara^er and origin known to any 

 of the ^native. Druggifts, akhough uled by them in many of th^ir 

 compounds, it appears fometimes to be confounded with C2t;^4 

 and it is called foj Qr:Chata/i^hYih& author o^- the Sabda-Chdn" 

 dried, a medical vocabulary in Sanfcrit with a Bengali tranflation : 

 if this ii not an error of the- author >or tranilator,' the berry fold 

 hj the diuggifts cannot be. the true Cacsol, but I mueh doubt 

 the accuracy of. the interpretation: the fynonimes will all apply 

 to dther fubftance, though they require to be tranOa;:ed out of 

 a metaphorical phrafeology : the names ..given ir. the SabdaCh'aiu 



