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This climbing shrub is well known in Europe, and grows wild in 
southern India. The berries contain picrotoxine, which is used in 
England in an ointment against body lice.—Scarone ( 353 ) . 
COSCINIUM. BLUiiEANUM Miers. Tuba kupak. 
A 5-percent water extract of the bark and stems of this Malayan 
fish-poison plant-failed to kill any of the larvae of Parasa herbifera 
(Walk.) that were treated.— Gater ( 153) . 
MENI5PERMUM CANADENSE L. Yellow parilla. 
Extracts of the roots killed only 35 percent of the mosquito 
larvae tested.— Hartz ell and Wilcoxon (188). 
PACHYGONE OVATE (Poir.) Miers. 
This species is used as an insecticide in India.— Chopra and 
Badhwar (98) ♦ 
MENTHACEAE 
(Mint Family) 
AJUGA BRACTEOSA Wall. 
In India on the Salt Range it was used to kill lice.— Watt (422 , 
v. 1, p. 153 i v. 3, p. 86). 
This plant was known to have insecticidal or repelling proper- 
ties.— Roark ( 332 , p. 2). 
COLLINSONIA CANADENSIS L. Citronella horsebalm. 
CUNILA ORIGANOIDES (L.) Britton. Stonemint. 
Extracts from these plants were not repellent to the Japanese 
beetle .--Metzger and Grant ( 277 ). 
DRACOCEPHALUM MOLDAVICA L. 
The essential oil was tested against cotton pests in Russia. 
When applied in 2-percent emulsion sprays more than 90 percent of the 
red spiders and cotton aphids were killed within 24 hours.— Kayumov 
(225, 226). 
