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used for preparing the green rice of the Malays. He concludes by saying larga ac fausta natura in cunctis fere litoribus hanc obviam profert plantam”—i.e. (a kind and bountiful nature offers this plant for our use on almost every shore.)
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Acharya Shri Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir
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In Bombay the plant has a great reputation as a febrifuge, the juice is mucilaginous, very bitter and somewhat saline. The Honourable Sir Dinshaw Manockjee Petit, who has used the leaves largely, finds them of much service in cases where quinine has not been well borne, he uses a syrup, infusion and pills in which they are combined with aromatics such as pepper and ginger.
DOSE.-The equivalent of from 15 to 30 leaves for an adult.
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Description.-A straggling shrub, 3 to 7 feet, shoots grey pubescent. Leaves opposite, rarely ternate
to 1 inch, when young somewhat grey pubescent; base cuncate; petiole inch; peduncles to 1 inch, all axillary, 3 to 7 fid; bracts inch, linear; pedicels toinch; calyx grey puberulous or glabrate; corolla white, tube inch, glabrate, lobes inch, oblong; drupe by inch, spongy, hardly succulent, smooth, hardly sulcate; separating into four woody pyrenes. Or the leaves may be mostly ternate sublinear and larger. The drupe also may vary ir size. Some on this account make Rumphius' plant a separate species under the name of C. nerufolium but Bentham and Kurz consider it only a variety
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