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employed for a very distressing erylhematic aedema sometimes su- 

 pervenes upon its application. The fumes of the burning wood even 

 have been known to produce this to a very severe degree ; the face 

 assuming a shapeless mass, from the diffused swelling occasioned. 

 Some constitutions are so susceptible of its deleterious influence that 

 even remaining under the shade of the tree causes oederoatous swell- 

 ing and eruptions. The native remedy in these cases, is merely to 

 rub the swollen parts with the inner pulp of the cocoa nut bruised. 



Sesamum Indicum. Leaves emollient, seeds contain a fixed oil, very 

 sweet and pure. 



Solanum Rubrum. The whole plant is supposed to possess pow- 

 erful diuretic virtues. 



Solanum Trilobatum. The plant is considered tonic and carmina- 

 tive. Flowers as well as roots, leaves, and stalks being used. 



Sterculia Urens. Bark abounds in mucilage, vk^hicb is in some 

 respects like tragacanth. 



Swietenia Febrifuga, Rohuna. Is a powerful tonic, and useful in 

 the cure of intermittent fevers. 



Tamarindus Indica. Pulp is slightly aperient; the kernels reduc- 

 ed to powder and formed into a paste, have the power of promoting 

 suppuration in indolent tumours. 



Terminalis Belerica, Beleric Myrobolan. Astringent. 



Tribulus Terrestris. Leaves and root diuretic. 



Vitex Trifoliata. Leaves repellant in rheumatism; seeds are said 

 to have nervine, cephalic, and emmenagogue virtues. 



Zingiber Officinale. Root employed as a valuable stomachic. 



4. Plants employed as materials in the Arts and Manvfactures. 

 _., ^, , Plants cultivated for oil are the carthamus tine- 



Oil Plants, 



torius, kuldie, safflower. Sesamum orientale, tillee ; 

 racinus communis, castor oil ; linum usitatissimum, linseed ; kur- 

 leh, verbesina sativa. Those spontaneously produced are the kurrunj 

 oil, expressed from the seeds of the dalbergia, arborea ; malkumnee 

 oil, from the seeds of the celastrus paniculata; and grass oil, com- 

 monly termed rhowsah oil, from the andropogan irasacusa. 



^^^^ A variety of gummiferous trees are found upon 



the hilly portions of the Circar, the principal of 

 which are the acacia arabica; feronia elephantum; conocarpus latifo- 



