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dish or obreniform, placed in the roundish sinuses of the 
crenations. 
Uses:— In the Punjab, the leaves along with pepper, are 
administered as a febrifuge, and in South India, when prepared 
with honey, they are used in catarrhal affections (Watt). 
At Colomas (in Mexico) this plant is used as a tea to relieve 
colic, but at Colothan it is taken as a tea for amenorrhea. 
This furnishes a good example of the diverse uses plants are 
often put to. (J. N. Rose’s useful Plants of Mexico). 
1352 . A. venustum, Don. 
Bef : — Beddome’s Handbook to the Ferns of Br. In., p. 86. 
V ern. : — Par-i-siya washan, hansraj, Hind., in the Bazars. 
The Makhzan gives Kali-jhant as the Hindi name of this plant. 
In Bombay it is chiefly known as mubaraka. The plant is 
generally known as ghfis in the Punjab Himalaya. 
Habitat : — Himalayas up to 8,000 feet in altitude, and chiefly 
in the North-Western Himalayas extending to Afghanistan. 
Fronds 3-4-pinnate ; pinnules firm, membranaceous, gla- 
brous, and slightly glaucous beneath, shortly petiolulate 
obovate-cuneate, rarely subrhomboid-acuminate, striated, the 
superior margin rounded, scarcely ever or but slightly 2 or 3 
lobed, finely dentate-serrate, fertile lobes with 2, rarely 3 
notches, each notch bearing a rather large sorus at the bottom ; 
involucres reniform-cordate, submembranaceous ; stipes and 
slender rachis everywhere ebeneous-glossy, glabrous. (Beddome.) 
Uses • — It possesses astringent and aromatic properties, is 
emetic in large dostes, and is a tonic and a febrifuge and 
expectorant. This remark is given by Mr. Baden- Powell in 
his Punjab Products under A. caudatum, A. venustum and other 
species, and it is probable that if all the preceding are not 
actually used indiscriminately or as substitutes for each other in 
different districts, they might easily be so, since they seem all 
to possess the same properties. Stewart says that “ in Chumba 
it is pounded and applied to bruises, &c., and the plant appears 
to supply in the Punjab most of the officinal hansraj, which is 
administered as an anodyne in bronchitis, and is considered 
