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with some other drugs of similar nature ” lie recommends 
the fresli succulenl leaves as a cooling external application in 
the place of ice or cold lotion. The seeds and juice of the 
fresh leaves may be best administered in the form of a draught, 
from thirty grains to one drachm of the former, and from one 
to two fluid ounces of the latter (obtained by pressing the 
leaves) being the dose, lie recommends cither of these as 
substitutes for spirits of nitrous ether, Pareira-brava, tragacanth, 
elm-baric, rhatany, copaiba, and ice. 
By Natives generally at the present day, the herb is chiefly 
valued as a refrigerant and alterative pot herb, particularly 
useful as an article of diet in scurvy and liver disease. In 
addition to the properties above detailed, the seeds are believed 
in the Punjab to be vermifuge. 
The juice of the stems may be applied with advantage to 
prickly heat, as well as to the hands and feet when a burning 
sensation is felt. 
119 . P. quadrificla , Linn., h.f.b.i., i. 247 . 
Syn. : — P. meridiana, Rnxb. 391. 
Sans : — Laghu Lonika 
Vcrn. : — Ohonnlayi, loniya, khatechawal (Hind.) ; Nuniya, 
chhota lunia (Beng.) ; Lunak, liaksha, lunki-buti (Pb.) ; Kota, 
cliaval-ke-bhaji, barika, ghola (Bomb.); LnnitGuzj; Ran Ghol 
(Mar); Choulayi-ki-bhaji, ghol- k i-bhaj i , eliowli (Dec.); Soin- 
parpu-kirai, pasarai-kirai, siru pasarai-kirai, passeli-kirai (Tam.) ; 
Sanna-pappu, sanna-pavili, goddu pavili, pedda pavili, sunpail 
kura, pavili, kura, payalaku, sauna payala (Tel.) ; Hali bachcheli 
(Kan.) ; Hin-gende-kola (Sing.) ; Baqlatul-yamaniah, baqlatul- 
aarabbiyah budelut-ul-mobarik (Arab.) 
Habitat : — Throughout the warmer parts of India. 
A diffuse, annual, succulent herb. Stem filiform. Rooting 
at the nodes ; nodal appendages pilose, more or less copious. 
Leaves flat £-§ in., opposite, very shortly petioled, ovate or 
ovate-lanceolate. Flowers terminal, solitary. Oalyx-tube J-im- 
mer8cd in the extremity of the axis, surrounded by a four- 
leaved involucre, and long silky hairs. Petals 4, yellow; 
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