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411, when applied by the natives to clarify muddy water, is the seed of another species of strychnos, _S.potatorum_.

The Singhalese name is _ingini_ (_tettan-cotta_ is Tamil).] [Footnote 2: In India, the distillers of arrack from the juice of the coco-nut palm are said, by Roxburgh, to introduce the seeds of the strychnus, in order to increase the intoxicating power of the spirit.] In these forests the Euphorbia[1], which we are accustomed to see only as a cactus-like green-house plant, attains the size and strength of a small timber-tree; its quadrangular stem becomes circular and woody, and its square fleshy shoots take the form of branches, or rise with a rounded top as high as thirty feet.[2] [Footnote 1: E.Antiquorun.] [Footnote 2: Amongst the remarkable plants of Ceylon, there is one concerning which a singular error has been perpetuated in botanical works from the time of Paul Hermann, who first described it in 1687, to the present.

I mean the _kiri-anguna_ (Gymnema lactiferum), evidently a form of the G.sylvestre, to which has been given the name of the _Ceylon cow-tree_; and it is asserted that the natives drink its juice as we do milk.

LOUDON (_Ency.