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INDIAN MEDICINAI PI, ANTS. 
Use : — The fruit is given as a remedy in amenorrhoea and 
colic. (Stewart.) 
1168. Gironniera reticulata, Thwaites, h.f.b.i., 
v. 486. 
Vern. : — Koditani (Tam.) ; Khomanig (Nilgiri) ; Nara 
Kiyaood (Ind. Bazars). 
Habitat. Sikkim Himalaya, Assam ; Khasia Mis. ; Deccan 
Peninsula ; on the Ghats from S. Canara to Travancore. 
An evergreen, lofty or small tree, 30-40ft. Branchlets slender, 
glabrous. Leaves entire or serrulate t the tip, coriaceous, 
penni-nerved ; secondary nerves 10-12 pair, impressed on the 
upper, and very prominent on the pair underside, 3-7in. Flow- 
ers dioecious. Male cymes shortly peduncled, brauches short, 
many-fid. Male flowers rarely glabrous ; sepals 5, broad, obtuse, 
imbricate ; stamens 5, erect in bud ; pistillode woolly. Female 
flowers : — Sepals narrow, acute; ovary sessile ; style central ; arms 
2, filiform, ovate, pendulous. Drupe usually 2-keeled, about as 
long as the pedicel, J-fin. long ; endocarp hard ; embryo 
contorted. 
Uses : — Thunberg says: — “The tree is called by the 
Dutch Strunthont, and by the Cingalese Urenne, on account 
of its disgusting odour, which resides especially in the thick 
stem and the larger branches. The smell of it so perfectly 
resembles that of human ordure, that one cannot perceive the 
smallest difference between them. When the tree is rasped, and 
the raspings are sprinkled with water, the stench is quite in- 
tolerable. It is nevertheless taken internally by the 
Cingalese as r.n efficacious remedy- When scraped fine and 
mixed with lemon' juice, it is taken internally, as a purifier of 
the blood in itch and other cutaneous eruptions, the body being 
at the same time anointed with it externally.” (Travels, Vol. 
IV. p. 234). 
1169. Humulus Lupulus, Linn., h.f.b.i., v. 487. 
Habitat Cultivated in N.-W. Himalaya. 
A perennial, twining, scabrid herb. Rootstock stout branch- 
ed ; stem tall, scabrid or prickly, with reversed bristles. 
