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Uses : — This herb, though now almost entirely neglected, was 
formerly much used in European medicine. It has a disagree- 
able, bitterish, astringent taste, and imparts its virtues to boiling 
water. It was formerly employed internally in intermittent 
fever, consumption, nephritic complaints, jaundice, and as a 
gargle in affections of the throat, and externally as a resolvent 
to swollen breasts and other tumours. U. S. Dispensatory.) 
It possesses slightly astringent qualities, and, according 
to the doctrine of signatures, Sir John Hill informs us that its 
power to arrest bleeding is indicated by the beautiful red hue 
assumed by the fading leaves. In Wales it is still administered 
in medicine, and our never-failing friend Gerard e extols it as 
an excellent “ Stauncher of blood.” (Sowerby’s English Botany). 
212 . G. oeellatum., Camb. h.f.b.t., i. 433 . 
V ern : — Bhnnd (H.) 
Habitat : — Hills of the Punjab, temperate and Sub-tropical 
Himalaya, from Kashmir and the salt range to E. Nipal ; Behar, 
on the top of Parusnatha. 
A small straggling annual, hoary-pubescent or hairy and 
glandular, excessively-branched, prostrate, slender shrub. Leaves 
orbicular |-2in. diam., rose-coloured, with a dark purple eye. 
Sepals rigid after flowering, wrinkled from the pressure against 
the carpels. Petals large broadly obcordate, much larger than 
the acuminate sepals. Fruit erect, f-in., long. Carpels corru- 
gated, small, separating from the axis and beak, which latter 
eventually coils up elastically. Seeds smooth, shining, pale. 
Use : — The plant possesses diuretic and astringent properties. 
(Watt.) 
213 . Oxalis coi'niculata, Linn, h.f.b.i., i. 436 . 
Roxb. 389 . 
Sans : — Amlalonika ; Changeri. 
Vern : — Chalmori ; Amrul-sik ; Chuka-tripati (B. and H.) ; 
Surchi ; Khatta mitha (Pb.); Pali&kiri ; Puli — yarai (Tam); Palla- 
chinta (Tel) ; Nalkarda Ambuti ; Bhui-sarpati iBomb.) ; Taudi 
