N. 0. TILIACE^E. 
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(Murray.) The bark and fresh leaves for diarrhoea ; also flowers 
rubbed with sugar and water are given in gonorrhoea by the 
villagers of Porebunder to stop the burning caused by urine 
(J. Indraji.) 
All the species of this genus are mucilaginous, and are 
used as demulcents, but this is the one generally so employed 
0 0 The burr-like fruit is believed in India to promote 
parturition (Dymock.) 
j] 7 % 
194. Corchorus capsularis, Linn., H.F.B.I., 
i. 397. Roxb. 429. 
Sans. '- — Kdla Saka. 
V ern. : — Harrawa (Shahjahanpur District) Ghinalta pat, 
Narcha, Chouchen (Bombay); Ohhufieht, Borachhflncht (Gujrat, 
Porebunder). — J. Indraji. 
Habitat : — Throughout the hotter parts of India. Low- 
country, Ceylon. 
An annual herb. Leaves 2-4 by f in., glabrescent, oblong, 
acuminate, coarsely toothed ; base generally prolonged into tail- 
like appendages ; petiole 11 in. Stipules in. Flowers yellow, 
less than half an inch in diameter; pedicillate. Capsule 
oblate, subglobose, 5-celled, wrinkled, muricate, 5-valved, valves 
without transverse septa. Seeds few in each cell (Maxwell 
T. Masters). 
Parts used : —The leaf. Dried root and unripe fruit in 
diarrhoea, in decoction (Indraji.) 
Use : — The dried leaves are used medicinally, being eaten 
at breakfast-time with rice, in cases of dysentery. 
The cold infusion is also administered as a tonic in dysen- 
teric complaints, fever, and dyspepsia (Watt). 
195. 0 . olitorius, Linn, h.f.b.i., i. 397. Roxb. 
429. 
Sans. : — Nddika, patta, sing-gikd. 
Vern.: — (Gujrat and Porebunder) Chhfinchdo. Moti 
Chhtinch ; Mahd Ckanchu. Singhin janascba (H.) ; Pdt, lali- 
