[[097]] The Shan and other Poems

[[098]] My Hindu friend is not answerable for the following notes.

[[099]]

And infants winged, who mirthful throw
Shafts rose-tipped from nectareous bow.

Kam Déva, the Cupid of the Hindu Mythology, is thus represented. His bow is of the sugar cane, his string is formed of wild bees, and his arrows are tipped with the rose.--Tales of the Forest.

[[100]] In 1811 this plant was subjected to a regular set of experiments by Dr. G. Playfair, who, with many of his brethren, bears ample testimony of its efficacy in leprosy, lues, tenia, herpes, dropsy, rheumatism, hectic and intermittent fever. The powdered bark is given in doses of 5-6 grains twice a day.--Dr. Voight's Hortus Suburbanus Calcuttensis.

[[101]] It is perhaps of the Flax tribe. Mr. Piddington gives it the Sanscrit name of Atasi and the Botanical name Linum usitatissimum.

[[102]] Roxburgh calls it "intensely fragrant."

[[103]] Sometimes employed by robbers to deprive their victims of the power of resistance. In a strong dose it is poison.

[[104]] It is said to be used by the Chinese to blacken their eyebrows and their shoes.