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INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 
has experience, which acts without producing griping, purging, 
or other unpleasant symptoms. In a communication to the 
Editor, he remarks that it is a good emetic and diaphoretic 
whenever ipecacuanha is not at hand, but that it should be 
regarded, not so much as a substitute for that article, as a 
resource in case of need ]— Ph. Ind. 
The leaves bruised and mixed with castor oil useful in 
whitlows and local inflammations. The juice of the leaves is 
used in ear-ache. In Java, it is used as an emetic. (Drury). 
1263. G. latifolium, Linn., h.f.b.i., vi., 283. 
Syn. : — Crinum zeylanicutn, Linn; Roxb. 286. 
Vern. : — Sukh-darsan (B. and H.) ; Gadambikanda (Bomb.) ; 
Vishamungil (Tam.). 
Habitat : — Plentiful throughout the peninsula of India. 
Perennial herbs, with large coated bulbs. Bulbs 5-6in. long, 
globose or ovoid, elongate ; neck stout, short. Leaves many, 2fft. 
by 3-4in., lorateor oblong-linear, acuminate, flat; margin slight- 
ly scabrous. Scape inserted on the neck of the bulb, about as 
long as the leaves, stout, tinged with purple. Bracts 3-4in., 
oblong or broadly lanceolate, inner linear. Umbel 10-20-fid ; 
pedicels very short ; perianth-tube 3-6in., curved, cylindric, limb 
nodding, 3-4in. long, funnel-shaped ; segments about 3-4 by lin ., 
oblong-lanceolate, acute. Stamens declinate, about \ shorter 
than the perianth segment. Athers f-f in. long ; style longer 
than the stamens. Ovary cells 5-6 — ovuled. Fruit sub-globose, 
l$-2in. diam. Flowers white with purplish or pink stain down 
centre of perianth-segments. Trimen says this is an extremely 
variable plant. 
Uses : —The bulb is extremely acrid, and is used for blister- 
ing cattle, a slice being bound upon the skin. When roasted, 
it is used as a rubefacient in rheumatism. The juice of the leaf 
is used in earache. 
Rheede states that the crushed and toasted bulb 'is applied 
to piles and abscesses to cause suppuration, and that if given 
to dogs it causes their teeth to fall out. According to Loureiro, 
it has the properties of squills. 
