N. O. EUPHORBIACK^:. 
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lateral nerves indistinct. Involucres 3 together, central sessile 
with male flowers, lateral, pedunculate with only male or both 
male and female flowers ; lobes fimbriate, erect, ovate. Bracte- 
oles many. Capsule £in. diam. Seeds smooth. (Kanjilal.) 
Uses : — The juice of the leaves used internally as a purgative ; 
mixed with nim oil externally applied in rheumatism. On the 
Western Coast bark of the root boiled in rice water and arrack 
given in dropsy. Leaves, simply warmed in the fire, will pro- 
mote urine, ex ternally applied, while their juice warmed is a 
good remedy in ear-ache and occasionally rubbed over the eyes 
to remove dimness of sight. (Ainslie and Rheede.) The pulp of 
the stem, mixed withjgreen ginger given to persons bitten with 
mad dogs, previous to the appearance of hydrophobia. ( Journ . 
Agri-Rorti. Soc. X 37.) Horslield (Asiat. Journ., vol. vii , p. 
265) mentions a case of dropsy in which he prescribed the 
inspissated juice of E. Nivulia in doses of a few (?) grains as a 
diuretic, and states that it was productive of evident relief. [Ph. 
Ind.) 
Ohem. Comp —The dried juice contains 35 per cent, of Euphorbon, 25-40 
per cent, of resin soluble in other, 13-70 of resin insoluble in ether, 1'50 per 
cent, of caoutchouc, and the other constituents of commercial gum euphorbiuin. 
The dried juice of E. Tirucalli was also found to be of a similar nature, and to 
contain 4 per cent, of caoutchouc. Henke examined the juice of sixteen 
species of Euphorbia and ascertained that they all contain euphorbon, so that 
we may fairly suppose it, as well as an acid resin, malate of calcium, and 
caoutchouc, to be a constant constituent of the milky juice of all the plants 
belonging to the geuus. ( Archiv . d. Pharm. Vol. 224, 729-759.) 
1119. E. antiquorum, Linn., h.f.b.i., v. 255 ; 
Roxb. 390. 
Sans. : — Sihunda, vajra, vajrakantaka. 
Vern . : — Tindhara sehund, tidhara-sehnr (H.); Narasij, 
tekatfisij, bajbaran, lariya-dnona (B.) ; Etkec’ (Sant.)-'; Dokana-siju 
(Uriya) ; Shidu (Miehi) ; Naraseja (Mar.) ; Tandhari-send (Guz.); 
Shadhurak-kalli, tirikalli (Tam.) ; Bomtna jeinudu, bonta- 
ehemudu (Tel.); mudu, mula-jemudu (Kan.); Katak-kalli (Mai.). 
Habitat : — Throughout the hotter oarts of India in dry 
places. 
A polymorphous plant (Wight), attaining 25ft. (Kurz), 15- 
30ft. (Trimen). Trunk stout, often 3ft. or more in circum- 
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