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INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 
elimichum pullam (Tam.); Nimma-pandu ; nemmapundu (Tel.) 
Nimbe hannu (Kan.). 
Habitat : — Wild in the warm valleys of. the outer Hima- 
layas. Cultivated all over India. 
Leaflet elliptic-oblong, petiole many times shorter than the 
leaflet, linear or obovate, racemes short, flowers small, petals 
usually 4, fruit usually small, globose or ovoid, with a thick or 
thin rind, pulp pale, sharply acid. 
Part used : — The juice. 
Use: — Native practitioners consider lime-juice to have 
virtues in checking bilious vomiting, and believe that it is 
powerfully refrigerant and antiseptic (Ainslie.) 
Fresh lime-juice often proves effectual in relieving the irri- 
tation and swelling caused by mosquito-bites (Dr. Thornton 
in Watt’s Dictionary.) 
Var. IV. C- limetta, D.C. h.f.b.i., i. 515. 
Sans. : — Madhu KarkatikA. 
Vern. : — Mitha n6bu ; nembu ; mitha amritphal (H.); Mitha 
nebu (B ); .Mitha-nimbu (Pb.); Mitha limbu (Guz.); elemitcuhm 
(Tam. ; Nemma-pandu ; gajanimma Tel.). Erumitchi narracum 
(Mai,). iSakar-Nimbu (Marathi ; Bombay). 
Habitat: — Cultivated in most parts of India. 
L'eaves and flowers as in Var. acida ; fruit globose, 3-5in, 
diam., rind very thin, smooth, adherent' to the pulp. Flowers pure 
white, at times tinged pink. The pulp is never acid, even in 
early stages of the fruit. Juice sweet, abundant, refreshing, “not 
aromatic,” say Brandis and Hooker. I find it slightly aromatic 
with the faint flavour of the rose as grown in the Bombay and 
Dekkan gardens. (K. R. K.). 
Use : — Extensively used as refrigerant in fever and jaundice 
(Watt). 
238 . G. auvantium, Linn, h.f.b.i., i . 515 . 
Habitat: — Hot valleys along the foot of the Himalaya and 
from Garwhal eastwards to Sikkim and in the Khasia Mountains ; 
Manipur; mountain forests in the Peninsula. 
