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INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 
cardamoms, cinnamon and sugar. The talispatra also enters 
into the preparation of numerous complex prescriptions. (U. C. 
Dutt’s Hindu Mat. Med.) Dr. F. Hamilton says the Hindu 
Doctors of Behar use an infusion of talispatra in the treatment 
of hoarseness. Hakims affirm that the gum, mixed with oil of 
roses, when taken internally, produces intoxication. This mix- 
ture is used externally for headache, neuralgia, &c. The juice 
of the fresh leaves is used as a family medicine in fevers, 
acting as an anti-periodic, for infants, dose 5-10 drops in water 
or mother’s milk. It is also prescribed in affections of the chest 
and during dentition. In Bengal, it is given as a tonic after 
parturition. 
N. 0. ORCHIDEiE. 
1224. Dtindrobium Macraei, Lindl., ii . f . b . i ., v. 7 14. 
Vern.\ — Joivanti Jiban, Sag (H.) ; Jibai, -Jibanti (B.j ; Jivanti 
(M. and G.). 
Habitat : — Sikkim Himalaya, Khasia hills, Deccan, Kanara, 
Nilgiri Hills. 
Rootstock creeping annulate. Stems pendulous 2-3ft., 
branches ending in fusiform pseudo bulbs 2-2|in. long. 
Leaves 4-8in., linear-oblong, obtuse, sessile. Flowers 2-3, shortly 
peduncled, f-lin. long, white ; pedicels f-lin. long. Sepals and 
petals erecto-patent linear-lanceolate acute, mentum short conic. 
Bracts basal, sheathing ; side-lobes of lip oblong obtuse, 
sprinkled with red ; mid-lobe variable, small with 2 diverging 
lobules crenulate and crisped, disk between the side-lobes with 
2 fleshy crests. 
Uses : — This plant is. the Jivanti of Sanskrit writers. In the 
Nighantas it bears the synonyms of Jivani, “ life-giving,” Jiva 
“life-giving,” Jivaniya “supporting life,” Jiva-^re§htha, Saka- 
srestha “ best of herbs,” and Yasas-vini “ renowned." It is 
also spoken of as Jiva-bhadra and Mangalaya “auspicious,” and 
is described as cold, mucilaginous, light, strengthening, and 
tridosba-ghna, i.e., a remedy for the disorder of the three 
humors of the body, bile, blood and phlegm, known to Hindu 
