N. 0. TA00A0E*. 
1281 
1264. G. sp. ? (found in Chutia Nagpur). 
(Mr. C. B. Clarke writes of this plant that he is unable to 
name it, and presumes it may be an undescribed species ; in 
that case it should bear the discoverer’s name — the Rev. A. 
Campbell.) 
Vern . : — Sikyom baha (Santal). 
Habitat : — High and dry situations in Chutia Nagpur, 
flowering during the hot season before the leaves appear. In 
some respects, this resembles C. latifolium as described in 
Roxburgh’s Flora Indica. 
Uses : — A decoction prepared from the bulb is given internal- 
ly and pounded and made into a paste ; it is also applied exter- 
nally by the Santals in dropsy. It is used for the diarrhoea of 
cattle. (Campbell) Watt ii. 591. 
N. 0. TACCACEiE. 
1265 Tacca pinnatifida, Forst., h.f.b.i., vi., 287. 
Habitat : — The Concans, Central India. 
Leaves 2-3ft. diam. ; tripartite segments 2-3-fid or irregu- 
larly pinnatifid or pinnate at the base ; petiole l-3ft., smooth. 
Scape tapering, longer than the petiole, striped, dark and light- 
green, 10-40-fid. Flowers drooping ; involucre leaves 4-12 or 
more, subequal, oblong, acuminate, lanceolate, recurved, striped 
with purple ; filiform bracts very numerous. Perianth greenish, 
subglobose, §in. diam., fleshy ; lobes conniving, subequal, 
margined with purple. Fruit size of a pigeon’s egg, 6-ribbed, 
yellow. Root-stock globose, 1ft. diam., under cultivation. 
(Hooker). Seeds angular. (Trimen.) 
Uses The root-stock is intensely bitter when raw. It is full 
of starch, which, when prepared, is of exellent culinary pro- 
perties, and is far preferable to that of any other arrowroot for 
dysentery. 
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