MORINGA PTERYGOSPERMA. airrtn.
Hyperanthera moringa, Va./a. Moriaben, Ban, . ARAB. Sainga, Saigut, . MAHR.
Hub-ul-ban (seed), „ Mumma, . . MALEAL.
Sohanjana, . . . BENG. Sajna, . . . PERS.
Da-tha-lwon, . . BURN. Sigru, . . . SANSK. Dha-ne eha, . . ,Sau murangay, SINGE. i Nugga, Nugge-gida, CAN. Murungai maram,. TAM. Mungay-ki-jhar, . DmEn. Munaga chettu, . TEL.
This is the horse-radish tree, very abundant all over British India, Burma, and Malay Penin sula. The leaves, flowers, and seed - vessels are used in curries. The roots have precisely the flavour of horse-radish, and in India arc sub stituted for it. The gum and bark arc used in native medicine ; the oil is aperient, and is much used by the native doctors in gout and rheumatism; and they prescribe the green root as a stimulant in paralysis and in intermittents, in scruple doses, and use it also in epilepsy and hysteria. The seeds are also used internally for their pungent and stimulating virtues. In Jamaica the wood is used for dyeing a blue colour. An oil is obtained
from the seeds, possessed of the same qualities as the oil of ben, the product of the M. aptera. The delicate perfumes of flowers are often retained by the ben oil, by pouring it over the flowers, or strewing layers of the flowers for about four hours over cotton soaked in the oil. In the West Indies it is used as a salad oil. A compound infusion of Sohanjana represents a similar infusion of horse-radish. A compound spirit of Sohan jana is stimulant in a dose of from two to four fluid drachms in water. Its gum is obtained in large quantity, does not dissolve in water, re sembles in some respects gum - tragacanth, for which it may probably be substituted. It exudes freely whenever an incision is `made in the bark. It is used by the natives iu headache, mixed with milk and rubbed on the temples, 'and is also em ployed as a local application for pains in the ; Ainslie ; Roxb.; Masckn • Stewart.