FILIOES. 
1391 
(calycopteris floribunda) ; 2 tolas ghas-pitpapra (Rostelluharia 
procumbens) ; 2 tolas Ringan-mul (root of Solanum indicum) ; 2 
tolas Balbel-pbal (small immature fruit of iEgle Marmalos), 
2 tolas Padmini-mul (root of Nelumbium speciosum), 4 tolas 
sonar-wel-mul, 2 tolas gokhru-mul (root of Tribulus terrestris). 
These nine drugs are to be powdered and divided into seven 
parts. For administration each part is to be boiled in 40 tola s 
of water, sweetened with 2 tolas of sugar-candy, and the 
decoction (Kara) boiled down to one-sight ; this is to be taken 
in the morning, and the mare is to be again treated in the same 
manner to furnish the niktira (second decoction) or evening 
dose. The same prescription is recommended in hectic fever 
from whatever cause, and in dyspepsia and cough ; during its 
use potatoes and indigestible vegetables are to be avoided. 
(Dymock). 
1357. Pleopeltis lanceolata , Linn. 
Ref: — Bedd. Handbook to, Ferns of Br. Ind. <&c. p. 351. 
Habitat : — Nilgiris and higher mountains on the West side 
of the Madras Presidency ; Assam and Ceylon. 
Rhizome long-creeping, paleaceous, with lanceolate ferru- 
ginous scales, stipes remote, 1-2-4 inches long ; fronds coriace- 
ous, 3-9 inches long, i-f inch wide, lanceolate, more or less 
acuminate, long and gradually attenuated at the base, copiously 
furnished w<ith orbicular ovate, small appressed peltate scales 
dark in the centre, pale in the circumference and denticulate ; 
veins immersed indistinct, the primary veins form large 
obliquely elongated areoles, which include very irregular and 
different sized areoles, and a few free veinlets which are rarely 
forked ; sori generally very large and often exceedingly pro- 
minent, pulvinate globose or oval, stalked scales mixed with 
the spore cases. 
Uses : — In Mexico, a tea made from the fronds of this fern 
is taken to cure the itch (I. N. Rose’s Notes on useful plants of 
Mexico.) This fern is not used in India for any medicinal 
purposes, (B.D.B). 
Dr. M. C. Cooke, in his paper on Medicinal Ferns, published 
