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INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 
Use : — The leaves and tender stalks are demulcent, and 
are used by the natives in decoction and electuary ; they are 
also employed in conjunction with some mild oil in preparing 
a cooling liniment for the head (Ainslie). The Santals employ 
the root in bowel complaints of children (A. Campbell). Dr. 
Moodeen Sheriff considers the drug to be demulcent and refri- 
gerant and useful in some cases of gonorrhoea and of scalding 
of urine. 
In the United States Dispensatory, it is stated that the 
root of a species of Ionidium has attracted some attention in 
the treatment of elephantiasis. 
N 0. BIXINEiE. 
103. Coehlospermum, Gossypium, D. C. h.f.b.i., 
i. 190. 
Syn. Bombax gossypium, Linn. Roxb. 515. 
Vern. : — Kumbi, gabdi, ganiar, galgal, gangal (II.) ; Hopo 
(Sautal.) ; Gulgal (Kol.) ; Gangatn (Gond.) ; Kantapalas (Uriya) ; 
Kumbi (Pb.) ; Gajra, Kumbi (U. P.) ; Gungu, kong, gondugogu 
(Tel.); Tanku, Kongillam (Tam.); Bettatovare, arisina burga 
(Kan.) ; Chimapunji (Mai.) ; Ganeri (Bnil) ; Kadachogund (Guj.); 
Kalir-gond, kathalya gonda (Mar) ; Sisibaha, Udal (Chutia Nag- 
pur). Katire, (Hindi). 
For the gum : — Nat-Ka-Katera, Nat-Ka-Katera-gond, 
(Deck.); Katera (H.); Tanaku-pishin (Tain.') ; Kondagogu-banka, 
Konda-gogu-pisunu (Tel.) ; Sliima-pangi-pasha (Mai.) 
For the cotton Pili-Kapas-Ki-rui, Katere-Ki-jhar, Kiriu 
(Deck.) ; Tanaku-paruthi (Tam.) ; Konda-gogu-pathi (Tel.) ; 
Shima-pangi-paruthi (Mai.). 
Habitat : — Dry hills, Garvval, Bundelkhund, Behar, Orissa 
and the Deccan ; also commonly planted near temples. 
A small deciduous tree, with a few short thick spreading 
branches. “Bark 1 in. thick, fibrous, deeply furrowed ; ihner 
substance red. Wood extremely soft, greyish-brown ; no heart- 
wood./ Pores large, scanty, often subdivided into compart- 
rqents. Medullary rays broad, visible on a radial section as 
