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no other sensible effects. It was found extremely variable in its action, in some a drachm causing vomiting, whilst in others half an ounce induced only slight nausea. Dr. Johnston extended its use to other skin diseases with advantage. Dr. Royle (op. cit., p. 352) states that the leaves and small twigs of the Deodara are also brought down to the plains, being much employed in native medicine. They may, doubtless, possess some mild terebinthinate properties. (Ph. India.)

Tn Kangra, the wood is pounded with water on a stone, and the paste applied to temples to relieve headache. (Stewart.)

The wood is bitter, useful in fever, costiveness, piles and pulmonary complaints. (S. Arjun.)

Vern, : — Palûdar, rewari (Jhelam) ; Bâdar, bûdar, tûng (Kashmir) ; Dhûnu, râg, rail, pe, re, salle, sara (Chamba) ; Tos (Kulu) ; Spun, pun, krok, kalrei (Kanawar) ; Morinda (Jaunsar) ; Bang, dodhma, râgha, teliya or chili râgha (South- Eastern Garhwal) ; Raunsla or râi salla (Kosi River) ; Râgha, râo râgha, ransla, raisalla (Kumaon) ; Gobria, sulah (Nepal); Dumshing (Bhutia.)

Habitat: — Temperate and Sub-alpine Himalaya.

An ever-green tree. Bark greyish-brown, rough. Wood white, soft. "Attains 150ft. Girth of trunk 30ft., says J. D. Hooker. " Usually stunted and gnarled " (Brandis). Josiah Hoopes, of Philadelphia, in his Treatise on Conifers, New York, 1889, says " A Webbiana is a native of the Himalayas and the Alps of Goosainthan in Nepal at elevations from 9,500 to 12,000 or 13,000ft., where it attains to the height of 70 or 80ft., forming a large, pyramidal- shaped tree, with broad, spreading branches, and in adult specially with a rather tabular formed top." Kanjilal describes the plant thus :-— " A lofty tree, with a densely, cylindric crown, pre-eminently shade-enduring ; branches pendular ; branchlets stout, stiff, spreading horizontally ; bark, on young stems, dark-brown or grey ; and split into long and narrow scales on old trees. Leaves 1-2 by1/10in., narrow-linear, narrowed into a short petiole, spirally arranged, but decimate on two sides to appear distichous, glossy, dark-green above,