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Rh in certain affections of the eyes, and the leaves when chewed, are said to destroy the power of the tongue to appreciate the taste of disagreeable medicines (DYMOCK).

A syrup of the dried fruits is used in the Punjab for bronchitis.

Syn. :— Z. glabra, Roxb, 206.

Vern. :•— Suran, churan (Hindi) ; Dhaush (Oudh) ; Sekra (Santh.) ; Todali (Mal.) Mayanksi (Lower Burma.) ; Tabu, Mitha Tabu (Upper Burma). Toran, Churna (Bomb).

Trimen; — (Sinhalese), Maha-eraminiya, (Tamil) Churai.

Habitat:— Eastern Himalaya, 2,000ft. Behar. Shan hills to 4000ft. Sub-Himalayan tract, from the Ganges eastward, ascending to 2,000ft. Burma, South India, Western Peninsula ; Ceylon, moist low country to 2,000 ft ; common.

A large, straggling or climbing bush, with long virgate branches, fulvous, tometose, when young. Leaves 2-3in., broadly oval or rotundate, unequal, sided, oblique at base, very short-acuminate, denticulate, glabrous above, densely fulvous tomentose, becoming glabrous beneath. Petiole ⅜in., prickles usually solitary, numerous, strong, broad-based, recurved or nearly straight, heavy. Flowers greenish, very small, numerous, in tomentose, pedunculate cymes about 1 in., arranged along one side of short, usually leafless, lateral branches. Calyx hairy outside, lobes ovate. Petals O ; dark, 5- lobed ; styles 2, connate at base. Fruit small, ¼-⅓in. Drupe edible, sweet, pinkish when ripe, pyriform globose, apiculate, smooth. Stone very thin, 1-celled, 1- seeded.

Use : — The flowers, with an equal quantity of the petioles of the betel leaf and half as much lime, are given in 4-grain pills twice a day for menorrhagia (DYMOCK.)

Syn. : — R. Virgatus, Roxb. 203.

Vern. : — Chato, chedwala, chadua (H.); Tsápo, mail (Tibet); Spiti (Kumaon) ; Phipai, dâdûr tadru, setapajja, hangi, mamral,