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INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 
Paris used : — The root and leaves. 
Use : — According to Rheede, a decoction of the root is 
given in colic, and it is cooling and relieves thirst. 
In Goa, the root, called ratanhia by the Portuguese, is 
much used in diarrhoea and chronic dysentery. The roasted 
leaves are applied to the head in vertigo. The juice of the 
young leaves is a digestive. In Reunion, the root is called Bois 
de Surreau , and is said to be used as a sudorific (I)ymock). 
308. L. robusta, Roxb. h.f.b.i., i. 667, Roxb. 
220 . 
Vem : — Gino (Goa,; Haramada, hatkan (Santal) ; Gabui 
(Nepal); Pan tom tLepcha). 
Habitat : —Sikkim Himalaya and Khasia Mts., Western 
Peninsula and the Northern Circars. Kolaba, Mirya Hill, 
Ratnagiri. 
A large, robust shrub, 5-6 ft. Stems stout, the older parts 
glabrous, the young covered with harsh, coarse, short pubescence. 
Leaves 2-3-pinnate, pubescent, 1-3 ft. long, often broader leaflets 
6-12 by 2J-6 in. ovate or ovate lanceolate, cuspidate, serrate, 
glabrous above, pubescent on the veins beneath. Bracts large, 
persistent, £-1 in. lanceolate. Flowers larger than in the other 
species. Cymes compact. Flowers larger than in the other 
species. Anthers connate. Fruit black, succulent, the size of 
a small cherry. 
' Uses : — In Chutia Nagpur, the soft and fleshy root is 
applied externally as an anodyne, and is also given to cattle for 
diarrhoea (Revd. A. Campbell). 
309. L. hirta, Roxb. h.f.b.i., i. 668. Roxb. 
220 . 
Syu : — Leea arguata, Linn. 
Sans. : — Kakajangha. 
Habitat : — Sikkim Himalaya, ascending too2,0(J0 ft., Assam, 
Vilkasi hills Silhet, the Khasia Mts., Sundarban, East Bengal, 
