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(calycopteris floribunda) ; 2 tolas ghas-pitpapra (Rostelluharia procumbens) ; 2 tolas Ringan-mul (root of Solanum indicura) ; 2 tolas Balbel-phal (small immature fruit of Ægle Marmalos), 2 tolas Padmini-mul (root of Nelumbium speciosum), 4 tolâs sonar-wel-mûl, 2 tolâs gokhru-mul (root of Tribulus terrestris). These nine drugs are to be powdered and divided into seven parts. For administration each part is to be boiled in 40 tolâs of water, sweetened with 2 tolâs of sugar-candy, and the decoction (Kâra) boiled down to one-sight ; this is to be taken in the morning, and the mare is to be again treated in the same manner to furnish the nikâra (second decoction) or evening dose. The same prescription is recommended in hectic fever from whatever cause, and in dyspepsia and cough ; during its use potatoes and indigestible vegetables are to be avoided. (Dymock).

Ref:—Bedd. Handbook to Ferns of Br. Ind. &c. p. 351.

Habitat : — Nilgiris and higher mountains on the West side of the Madras Presidency ; Assam and Ceylon.

Rhizome long-creeping, paleaceous, with lanceolate ferruginous scales, stipes remote, 1-2-4 inches long ; fronds coriaceous, 3-9 inches long, ¼-¾ inch wide, lanceolate, more or less acuminate, long and gradually attenuated at the base, copiously furnished with orbicular ovate, small appressed peltate scales dark in the centre, pale in the circumference and denticulate ; veins immersed indistinct, the primary veins form large obliquely elongated areoles, which include very irregular and different sized areoles, and a few free veinlets which are rarely forked ; sori generally very large and often exceedingly prominent, pulvinate globose or oval, stalked scales mixed with the spore cases.

Uses : — In Mexico, a tea made from the fronds of this fern is taken to cure the itch (I. N. Rose's Notes on useful plants of Mexico.) This fern is not used in India for any medicinal purposes, (B.D.B).

Dr. M. C. Cooke, in his paper on Medicinal Ferns, published