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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1883 edition. Excerpt:...taken as a snuff for neuralgic headache. Luffa aegyptica. Vera.--Bengali, Dhundul; Hindi, Ghia-tarui. Cultivated as a vegetable. When over-ripe and after exposure to the atmosphere, the cellular tissue becomes absorbed, leaving a mass of netted fibres, now generally used in the bath-room. The seeds are used as a cooling medicine. Timber. M Machilus odoratissima. Vera.--Hindi, Dalchhini, Mitha-pata. A large tree of the Himalayas, Khasia Hills, and Burma. It is common near Darjiling, where the wood is largely used for building purposes, chiefly for native houses. This is the noted sum tree of Assam, on the leaves of which the Muga silk-worm (Anthercea Assama) feeds. Maize. Set Zea Mays. Malachra capitata. A fibre plant newly introduced into India. The sample sent to Am-Fibre, sterdam was from the Bhadgaon Farm, Bombay. Malancha. (Unidentified.) A grass found in the rice-fields of Bengal; used as a green fodder in Fodder, the rains. Mal-kekra. (Unidentified.) A grass found in the rice-fields and marshes of Lower Bengal; used Fodder, as a green fodder in the rains. Mallotus Philippinensis. Indian Kamila. Syn.--Rottlera tinctoria. Vern.--Bengali, Hindi, Kamila-guri; Tamil, Kamela-mavu; Telugu, Kapila-pindi; Burmese, Tau-ti-din. A small forest tree, found in all parts of India. The most important produce of the plant is the powder covering the ripe fruit, used as a dye, Dye. specially for silk, to which it imparts a fine yellow colour. It does not require a mordant. It is also used in medicine as a purgative and anthel-Medicine, mintic. The bark is used for tanning. An oil, obtained from the kernel of Tan. the fruit, is used as a cathartic. oa Malva rotundifolia. Vera.--Hindi, Sonchala, Khubdzi. Seeds demulcent, used in bronchitis, cough,..