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MELIA DUBIA Cav. Synonyms: M. superba Roxb.j M. robusta Roxb. 
In the Conoan, India., the juice of the green fruit, with one- 
third of its weight of sulfur and an equal quantity of curds, heated 
together in a copper pot, was used as an application for scabies and for 
sores infested with maggots.— Dymock and coworkers (124 , v. 1, p. 333), 
TRICHILIA CUNEATA Radlk. 
The fruit and leaves were reputed to be toxic. An infusion of the 
leaves was used for the destruction of itch mites and other parasites 
of the skin.—Scarone ( 553 ) . 
WALSURA PISCIDIA Roxb. Synonym: Trichilia trifoliate Wall. 
The Arabs used the fruit in a hair wash to kill vermin and in an 
ointment to cure itch.— Watt (422, v. 6, pt. 4, p. 299). 
MENISPKRMACEAE 
(Moons eed Family) 
ANAMITRA COCCUUJS (.L.) Wight & Am. Synonyms: Menispermum cocculus L. 
Cocculus suberosus DC. Fruit = Cocculus indicus or fi6h berries. 
In India this plant was used in an ointment to destroy lice. — 
Watt ( 422 , v. 3, p. 87). 
In the Philippines the fruit was used in an antiparasitic oint- 
ment. — Greshoff (171 , p. 46). 
The extract of 10 gm. of cocculus indicus in 500 cc. of water 
had no effect on the caterpillars of Prodenia litura (F.) •— DeBussy 
(76). 
A. cocculus was used as a fish poison and as an insecticide in 
India. The seeds were boiled in rice and made into a paste.— Roark 
( 352 , p. 3). 
This fish-poison plant is found in India, and the juice of the 
fruit is used to destroy body lice. A 5-percent alcoholic extract of 
the fruit killed 100 percent of Bup roctis frrvterna (?-!oore) , 50 per- 
cent of Plutella maculipenn is (Curt.), 60 percent of Crocidolonia 
binotalis Zeller., 30 percent of Prodenia litura (F.) and 100 percent 
of mango hopper nymphs. A similar extract oi the leaves Killed SO 
percent of P. maculipennis , and a 3-percent alcoholic extract of the 
leaves, roots, and stems eacii killed 100 percent of L. fraterna . — 
Futtarudriah and Subramaniam (311). 
