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CHAP. I. <strong>MATERIA</strong> <strong>INDICA</strong>. 219<br />
high estimation. Jackson, in his account of the<br />
Empire of Morocco·, says that it is there considered<br />
as refiojgerent and a grateful restorative to<br />
relaxed bowels; but it is probable he may have<br />
confounded this species with the cactus triangularis,<br />
which Browne t calls the strawberry pear, and the<br />
fruit of which, according to Sloane, is the pleasantest<br />
of any of its kind, The cactus ficus Indica grows<br />
in Ceylon, with four other species, and is called by<br />
the Cyngalese judu-Icata-patulc. See Moon's Catalogue<br />
of Ceylon Plants, p. 38.<br />
CC.<br />
I<br />
NAGHA MOOGHATEI KA-I (Tam.) Nagara-moolcutty<br />
leai (Tel.) Munda-'Valli (Rheede)<br />
Mal. ii. p. 103. t.50. Puthmapoo todemie (Sans.)<br />
Largejiowered Bindu)eed, or M oonjiower.<br />
CONVOLVULUS GRANDIJ..'LORUS (Lin.) .<br />
. Cl. and Ord. Pentandria Monogynia. Nat. Ord.<br />
Campanaccre. Groshlutige Winde (Nom. Triv.<br />
\Villd.).<br />
]\"("agha moogltatei !.:ai is the Tamool name of the.<br />
capsule or pericarpium of this species of convolvulus,<br />
containing usually four seeds about the size<br />
of kidney beans; and which are eaten when young.<br />
Dried, these capsules and seeds, as well as the<br />
. flowers, leaves, and root, are amongst the medicines<br />
which are supposed to have virtues in snake-bites.<br />
The dose of the seeds is about three daily, adminis-<br />
• See his work.<br />
t See Lunan's Hort. Jamaicensis, vol. ii. p.413.
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