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INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 
no other sensible effects. It was found extremely variable in its 
action, in some a drachm causing vomiting, whilst in others 
half an ounce induced only slight nausea. Dr. Johnston extended 
its use to other skin diseases with advantage. Dr. Royle (op. 
cit., p. 352) states that the leaves and small twigs of the Deodara 
are also brought down to the plains, being much employed in 
native medicine. They may, doubtless, possess some mild 
terebinthinate properties. (Ph. India.) 
In Kangra, the wood is pounded with water on a stone, and 
the paste applied /to temples to relieve headache. (Stewart.) 
The wood is bitter, useful in fever, costiveness, piles and 
pulmonary- complaints. (S. Arjun.) 
1223. Abies Webbiana, Kindley, H.F.B.I., v. 654. 
Vern. : — Palfidar, rewari (Jlielam) ; Badar, bfidar, tfing 
(Kashmir); Dhunu, rag, rail, pe, re, salle, sara (Qhamba); 
Tos (Kulu); Spun, pun, krok, kalrei (Kanawar) ; 'Morinda 
(Jaunsar) ; Bang, dodhma, ragha, teliya or chili ragha (South- 
Eastern Garhwal) ; Raunsla or rai sail a (Kosi River) ; R&gha, 
rao ragha, ransla, raisalla (Kumaon) ; Gobria, sulah ( Nepal k 
Dumshing (Bhutia.) 
Habitat: — Temperate and Sub-alpine Himalaya. 
An ever-green tree. Bark greyish-brown, rough. Wood white, 
soft. “Attains 150ft. Girth of trunk 30ft., says J. D. Hooker. 
Usually stunted and gnarled ” (Brandis). Josiah Hoopes, of 
Philadelphia, in his Treatise on Conifer®, New York, 1889, says 
“A Webbiana is a native of the Himalayas and the Alps of 
Goosainthan in Nepal at elevations from 9,500 to 12,000 or 
13,000ft., where it attains to the height of 70 or 80ft., forming 
a large, pyramidal- shaped tree, with broad, spreading branches, 
and in adult specially with "a rather tabular formed top.” 
Kanjilal describes the plant thus:— “A lofty tree, with a 
densely, cylindric crown, pre-eminently shade-enduring ; branches 
pendular ; branchlets stout., stiff, spreading horizontally ; bark, on 
young stems, dark-brown or grey ; and split info long and 
narrow scales on old trees. Leaves 1-2 by^in., narrow-linear, 
narrowed into a short petiole, spirally arranged, but decimate 
on two sides to appear distichous, glossy, dark-green above, 
