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INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 
201. Hugonia Mystax, Linn., h.f.b.i., i. 413. 
V ern. : — Agtire (Tam.) ; gatrinta ; tivoa potike ; vendapa ; 
Kaki bira (.Tel. J ; Modera Cannj (Mai.) 
Trimen gives the following names - 
Sinhalese : — Maha-getiya, Bugetuya ; 
Tamil : — Motirakanni. 
Ilabitat : — Western Peninsula, from the Concan to Travan- 
cor. Ceylon, low country. 
In the Konkan, near the sea-coast, at Vingorla ; Northern 
Circars and-the Karnatic ; Ceylon (Trimen, FI. Ceylon, I. 189.) 
A climbing shrub, scrambling ; branches spreading, set 
with numerous short, stiff, yellow-tomentose branchlets. “ Bark 
yellowish-white, corky. Wood greyish-white, hard, close- 
grained. Pores small, very numerous and evenly distributed. 
Medullary rays very faintly marked, numerous, regular.” 
(Gamble). Branches leafless below, bearing in the axils of the 
lowest leaves a pair of woody, reflexed, circinate, tomentose 
pines (modified peduncles occasionally bearing flowers), above 
them tufts of leaves and axillary flowers. (Brandis). Leaves 
alternate, stipules subulate. Flowers yellow, 1 in. across. 
Sepals 5, Unequal, imbricate. Petals 5, contorted. Stamens 10 ; 
filaments connate at base. Ovary 5-celled, styles 5, distinct. 
Drupe red or yellow, | in. long, endocarp bony, grooved ; 
Seeds 2-3 (Brandis). Flowering time, May-October. 
Uses : — The bruised roots are employed externally in 
reducing inflammatory swellings, and as an antidote to snake- 
bites. In th&formof a powder, it is administered internally 
as an anthelmintic and febrifuge. The bark of the root is also 
employed as an antidote to poisons (Watt). 
202. Erythvoxylon monogynum, Roxb. h.f.b.i., 
i . 414. Roxb. 322. 
Syn. : — E. indicum, Bedd FI. Sylv. p. SI- Sethia Indica 
D.C. 
Vern ; N&t-ka-devdar (Dec.) ; Devdarum, Chemmanally 
(Tam.) ; Adivi geranta, pagadapu-katta (Tel.) 
