[1573] De Plantis Ægypti, Venet. 1592. cap. xxv.
[1574] Rarior. plantar. hist. ii. (1601) lxxxvii.
[1575] Hortus Malabaricus, ii. tab. 31.
[1576] Illustrations of Indian Botany, Madras, ii. (1850) tab. 155.—C. procera is figured by the same author in his Icones Plantarum Indiæ Orientalis, iv. tab. 1278.
[1577] Edinb. Med. and Surg. Journ. xxxii. (1829) 60.
[1578] We are indebted for an authentic specimen to Dr. E. Burton Brown of Lahore.
[1579] Roots of C. gigantea kindly supplied to us by Dr. Bidie of Madras consist of light, woody truncheons, ½ to 2¼ inches in diameter.
[1580] It is evidently with a view to the retention of this juice, that the Pharmacopœia of India orders the bark to be stripped from the roots when the latter are half-dried. Moodeen Sheriff remarks of C. gigantea, that although it is frequently used in medicine, no part of it is sold in the bazaars,—no doubt from the circumstance that the plant is everywhere found wild and can be collected as required.
[1581] List’s Asclepione (Gmelin’s Chemistry, xvii. 368) might then be sought for.
[1582] Supplement to the Pharmacopœia of India, Madras, 1869. 364; for further information on the therapeutic uses of mudar, see also Pharm. of India, 458.