N. O. I.ORANTHACEJR. 
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Perianth tubular, 2-dentate. Fruit oblong or globose, orange- 
yellow, or bright-scarlet when ripe, enclosed in the succulent 
perianth. Seed dark-brown, shining 
Uses: — The natives of Kana war are stated by Longden to 
eat it as a sort of chatni. As a chatni, it is recommended for 
lung complaints in a Tibetan Pharmacopeia. 
The Siberians and Tartars make a jelly from these berries 
and eat them with milk and cheese, whilst the inhabitants 
of the Gulf of Bothnia prepare from them a sort of rob, which 
they use as a condiment with fish. 0 a In some districts 
of France a sauce is made from these berries and eaten with 
fish or meat. A decoction of them is said to be useful in 
cutaneous eruptions. * 0 The roots of the plant are long 
and straggling, and often assist in binding the loose sand 
on which it grows. (Sowerby’s English Botany, Vol. VIII. p. 83.) 
1105. H. salicifolia, Don. h.t.b.i., v. 203. 
Vevn. : — Ashuk (Nepal) ; Lhkla (Bhotan and Lepcha) ; Sfirch, 
suts, kills, bis, tserdkar, dhurehuk, tarwa-chuk, chuma (Pb ). 
Habitat : — Temperate Himalaya, from Jammu to Sikkim. 
A willow-like shrub, 10-20ft. high, with lateral thorns. 
Very similar in appearance and hardly specifically different 
from II rhamnoides. Bark dark-grey, brown, soft, Ain thick, 
cleft in deep vertical furrows and shallow cross ones into 
somewhat rectangular ones. Leaves membranous, glabrous or 
pubescent above, 2-4in., dull-green, linear-lanceolate, densely 
clothed beneath with white or rusty stellate hairs and some 
circular scales, so also are in the petioles and branchlets covered. 
Use The fruit is employed in cases of lung disease. (Punjab 
Products ) 
N. 0. LORANTHACEvE. 
1106. Viseum album, Linn., h.f.b.i., v. 223. 
Vern. : — Turapauli (Afg.) ; Bhangra, ban da, bamba, kahbang 
(Pb.) ; Bambal, wahal, ahalfi (Pb.) ; Dibk (Arab.) ; Ban, banda 
