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INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 
snakes, at the same time given inwardly about the size of a field 
bean. It is certainly a most powerful stimulant, in proper 
hands it might no doubt be used to great advantage in the 
cure of several disorders. (Roxburgh). Dr. Waring remarks 
that any good effect which could be expected from it, may, 
however, be more readily obtained from a mustard poultice. 
The acrid principle is very volatile ; and by the application 
of heat, or by simple drying, the root becomes innocuous or 
even wholesome as articles of diet (Ph. Ind.). As an article of 
food, it relaxes the bowels and thereby relieves haemorrhoids. 
The wild plant is used as a medicine for plies (T. R. Moodeliar). 
1313. Amorphophalius campanulatus, Blume, 
H.F.B.I., vi. 513. 
Syn. : — Arum Campanulatum, Roxb. 629. 
Sans. : — Arsaghna ; Kanda. 
Vem.: — Jangli-suran, Zamin-kand (H.); OJ. (B.); Suran 
(Mar.) ; Karu-naik-kizhangu, or karuna-kalang (Tam.); Kanda- 
godda, poti-konda, manchik-anda (Tel.). 
Habitat : — Cultivated throughout India. 
A perennial stemless herb, with tuberous roots, often ljft. 
in circumference, flowering before leafing every year from the 
previous year’s tuber. The tuber is really and truly an under- 
ground stem which bears only one spathe-included spadix, after 
the maturation of which what looks like a stem above-ground 
is merely the petiole radically developed from the depressed 
portion of the globose tuber side by side with the spathe and 
spadix. The tuber has sometimes many bulbils, each of which 
gives forth no spathe nor spadix, but only a petiole with leaves. 
Petiole of the main bulb which has flowered already varies in 
height from l£-2£ft. in cultivated varieties, often 4ft. 2-4in. 
thick, rough, clouded dark and light-green, cylindric, softly 
fleshy, succulent. Leaf formed of the three radiating horizontal 
divisions of the petiole, l-3ft. broad. The divisions are di- 
chotomous, pinnatisect, with a deep channel on the ventral 
aspect, roundish on the dorsal aspect, slightly scabrous. There 
