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INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 
generally used as a refrigerant, and also as a gentle laxative. 
It has been extensively used as an alterative in chronic rheuma- 
tic and venereal diseases. I exhibit two preparations : — (1) A 
liquid extract obtained from the root. Dose one dram in water, 
or goat’s milk, thrice daily. (2) A syrup of the leaves. Dose 
one to two drams. Both the preparations were made lor me 
by Mr. M. C. Pareira of Bandra, for exhibition at this Congress.” 
(Surgeon Kirtikar at the Pharmacological Section, Melbourne 
Medical Congress, Australasia. See Proceedings, p. 947-1889 
44. C. Leaeba, D.C. h.f.b.i., i. 102. 
V ern. Vallur, illar-billar ; parwatti (Guj.) ; vehri (Pb. and 
Siudhi) ; Ul lar-bi liar Sindh). 
Habitat : — Drier parts of Western India, the Punjab, Sindh, 
and the Carnatic valleys, ; below Simla, plains of India ascending 
to 3,000 ft. 
Part used : — The whole plant. 
A climbing shrub. Branchlets pnberulous, long, slender ; 
leaves very variable, linear-oblong, oblong or trapezoid, entire 
or 3-5-lobed, glabrate, usually obtuse and mur:ronate ; base 
cuneate, rounded, young, hoary, old, often glaucous on both 
surfaces. Pedicels £-£ in. Male flowers fascicled in small 
sessile clusters in the axils, and on woody tubercles. 
Females solitary, 1-3, sessile, at the end of short axillary stalks. 
Drupes dark purple, s in. 
Uses: — It is used in Sindh and Afghanistan in the treatment 
of intermittent fevers and as a substitute for Coeealus ludieus. 
45. Perieampylus incanus, Miers. h.f.b.i., 
I. 102. 
Vern. Baiak Kanta (B). 
Habitat: — Sikkim, Assam, the Khasia hills, Chittagong, 
throughout the Eastern Peninsula, Malay Peninsula and Archi- 
pelago. 
A tomentose climbing shrub. Stem cylindrical and grooved. 
Wood in wedges, separated by broad medullary rays. Branchlets 
