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INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 
expectorant, diuretic and emmenagogue. Used as a plaster it 
is considered to be discutient, and is applied to chronic tumors 
of various kinds." 
Drynaria : — Fronds articulate with the caudex, with either 
a separate sterile frond like an oak leaf or the base of the frond 
pinDatifid and oak-leaf-like ; veins copiously anastomosing, 
forming quadrate or hexagonal areoles ; sori Bmall, round or 
oval, numerous. (Beddome). 
1356 . D. quercifolia, Linn. 
Syn. : — Polypodium quercifolium, Linn. 
Ref. : — Bedd. Handbook to the Ferns of Br. In., p. 341. 
Vern: — Basingh or Wandur-bashing (Mar.). 
Hatttat : — Through the Indian Plains, or very low down on 
mountain on trees or rock. Seen in the Court House garden of 
Ratnagiri on a tree in 1898-1905. Rajapur Ratnagiri District 
1899-1904. (K. R. Kirtikard 
Rhizome creeping, short, stout, densely clothed with red- 
brown satiny lanceolate-subulate soft scales, which have a 
cordate base, and are i-lin. long; fronds coriaceous or sub- 
coriaceous of two kinds, sterile ones varying in size from 3-12 
inches and more long, and 7-8 inches wide, green when very 
young, but soon turning dark-brown, glossy, cordate-ovate 
variously lobate-pinnatifid, sometimes half way down to the 
costa ; fertile ones 2-3ft. long, long-petiolate broad-ovate deeply 
nearly to the rachis pinnatifid, segments 5-9 inches long, 
1-1£ inches wide, oblong acuminate, entire ; venation manifest, 
costules distinct rather distant, united by transverse veins 
forming 4-6 primary soriferous areoles filled up with a network 
of small quadrangular areoles with or without free veins ; sori 
compital small, numerous, two in each primary areole, conse- 
quently in 2 series between and parallel with the costules. 
Uses : — For medicinal purposes those plants which grow 
upon the strychuos nux-vomica are preferred. The' author of 
the Wanaushadi Prakash gives the following prescription con- 
taining Basingh as the best cnre for phthisis : — Take 2 tolas of 
Kajrabasingh, 2 tolas of Chiretta ; 1 tola Ooksi flowers 
