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physicians as tridosha. The whole plant is used irr decoction 
along with other drugs supposed to have similar properties ; 
it must not be confounded with Jivaka, one of the A§htavarga, 
which is a drug unknown to the modern Hindus. D. Macraei 
does not appear to have been noticed by any of the European 
writers upon Indian Materia Medica. ( hharmacogr Ind. Ill 390.) 
The authors of the Pkarmacoyraphia Indica have isolated from the dried 
roots and stems, an alkaloid which they have provisionally named Jibantine 
and two acids A and B Jibantic acid. 
1225 . D. chlorops Lincll. , h.f.b.i., y. 719 . 
Vern. : — Maravar (Malabar/. 
Habitat : — The Deccan peninsula, from the Concan to 
Malabar. “ In the Thana District I have found it growing on 
branches of mango trees in the rainy season.” (K.R.K.). 
Stems tufted, 12-lSin. long, usually slender. Leaves on 
first year’s shoots 2-4 by J-Jin., lanceolate, acute, the second 
year’s shoots leafless and flower-bearing. Flowers fin. in diam., 
with a primrose-like scent when first expanded, in lateral and 
terminal racemes 3-6in. long ; pedicels and ovary together 
reaching Jin- long in flower, slender ; bracts below the pedicels 
Jin. long, ovate-lanceolate, acute. Sepals cream-colored ; lateral 
sepals Jin. long by Jin. broad at the base, oblong-lanceolate, 
subacute ; dorsal sepal Jin. long, less than Jin. broad, 
oblanceolate, obtuse. Mentum conical, Jin. long. Petals f by 
Jin., cream-colored, obovate. Lip flat, rather more than Jin. 
long ; side lobes small, rounded, greenish ; mid-lobe large, 
subquadrate, cream-colored ; disk pubescent with a channelled 
ridge. Column greenish : anther white. Fruit not seen. 
(Cooke.) 
Uses : — The entire plant, recently gathered, chiefly its juice, 
when given internally, cures all kinds of stomach ache, excites 
bile and acts as a laxative to the intestines, (liheede, transla- 
ted from Latin by K.R.K.) 
1226 . Eulophia campestris, Wall., h.f.b.i., vi. 4. 
Vern . ; Salib-misri (H. B. and Pb.) ; Bongataini (Santal) ; 
llatti-paila (Nepal) ; Salurn (Guz.) ; Suug-misri (Per.) ; 
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