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INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 
1350 . A. caudatum , Linn. 
Ref. : — Beddome’s Handbook to the Ferns of Br. In., p. 83. 
Sans. : — Maytirarfikhd. 
Vern .: — Adhsarita-ki-jari ; Gun Kiri; Raj-hans ; Parsiya 
washan (Pb.). 
Habitat : — Throughout India, Ceylon and the Malay Peninsula 
in the plains and on lower slopes of hills. 
Stipes, 2-4 inches long, tufted, wiry, spreading, dark chestnut 
brown, tomentose, fronds 6-12 inches long, simply pinnate, 
often elongated and rooting at the extremity, pinnae inches 
long, 1 inch deep, dimidiate, nearly sessile, the lower line straight 
and horizontal, the upper rounded, more or less cut, often deeply 
and repeatedly, the point usually blunt, the lower ones slightly 
stalked texture coriaceous, the veins prominent ; the rachis and 
both surfaces of the frond villose. Sori roundish or transversely 
oblong on the edge of the lobes. (Beddome). 
Uses : — The leaves of this species are, in the island of Bourbon, 
used in the preparation of sirop-de-capillaire. (Ainslie). Used 
to cure cough and fever. (Ibbetson.) 
Used externally as a remedy for skin diseases. (Surg. W. 
Barren, Bhuj.) Said to be useful in diabetes. (D. R. Thompson, 
M. D. Madras.). — Watt’s Diet. 
1351 . A. Capillus-Veneris, Linn. 
Ref : — Beddome’s Hand book to the Ferns of Br. Ind., p : 84. 
Vern : — Dilmtuli (Kashmir); Pursha ; Hansraj ; Mub&raka, 
(Hind); Hanspadi (Guj). 
Habitat : — Western Himalaya ; Punjab ; common in South 
India. Near Panchgani (Birdwood’s catalogue of Matheran and 
Mahableswar). (K. R. K.). 
Stipes suberect, rather slender, 4-9 inches long, polished, 
blackish, naked ; fronds bipinnate, with a short terminal pinna 
and numerous erect-patent lateral ones on each side, the lowest 
slightly branched again ; segments |-1 inch broad, the base 
cuneate, the outer edge rounded, deeply lobed from the circum- 
ference in the direction of the centre, and the lobes again 
bluntly crenated, lowest petioles £ inch long, texture pellucid 
herbaceous, thin ; rachis and both surfaces naked ; sori roun- 
