N. 0. BURIAOEAS. 
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Asst.-Surgeon Amrita Lai Dab of Howrah, has found it very 
useful in dysentery. Drs. Bird and Pilcher have also favour- 
ably reported on its efficacy in that disease. ( Vide I. M. G., 
Oct., 1878 ; p. 281.) 
612. Pavetta Indica, Linn. H.F.B.I., in. 150. 
Syn. : — Ixora Pavetta, Roxb. 129. 
Sans ■ — Papp&na. 
Vern. Kflkfira-chfrra (B.) ; Papat, tartari (Bom.) ; Pavuttay 
(Tam.); Malleamothe (Mai.); Paputta, Nooni-papoota (Tel.); 
Kankra (Hind.). 
Habitat : — Throughout India, from the Western Himalaya 
in Garwhal to Bhotan, and southwards to Ceylon. 
A large shrub. Bark thin, smooth, brownish grey. Wood 
white to light brown, hard, close-grained (Gamble). Branches 
numerous, spreading, twigs cylindric, glabrous, or tomentose. 
Branchlets obtusely quadrangular, says Brandis. Leaves lan- 
ceolate or elliptic-lanceolate, sometimes obovate, acuminate, 
subacute, glabrous on both sides, dark green and shining above, 
with scattered large, thickened, hard warts, more prominent 
above than beneath ; blade 3-9in. (Trimen), 4-9in. (Brandis), 
petiole f-|in., stipules connate, triangular, acute, thin, deciduous. 
Flowers very numerous on pedicels, longer than Calyx, white, 
rather fragrant. Cymes copious, lax, corymbose, terminal, 
glabrous, often with bracts below the branches. Calyx-segments, 
very small, tooth-like. Corolla-tube about fin.. Lobes obtuse, 
about half length of tube ; style exserted for fully fin., very 
slender ; stigma slightly clavate. Fruit f-gin. diam., nearly 
glabrous, polished, dark. 
Uses : — The root is bitter, possessing aperient qualities, and 
is commonly prescribed by native doctors in visceral obstruc- 
tions ; given in powder to children, the dose is about a drachm 
or more (Ainslie). 
Boiled in water, a fomentation is made from the leaves for 
hasmorrhoidal pains. The root is pulverised and mixed with 
ginger and rice water, and given in dropsy (Rheede). 
Mr. H. M. Birdwood calls it “ Matheran coffee. 
