178.) But this in altogether a mistake;--the Ceylon plant, like many others, has acquired its epithet of _kiri_, not from the juices being susceptible of being used as a substitute for milk, but simply from its resemblance to it in colour and consistency.

It is a creeper, found on the southern and western coasts, and used medicinally by the natives, but never as an article of food.
The leaves, when chopped and boiled, are administered to nurses by native practitioners, and are supposed to increase the secretion of milk.

As to its use, as stated by London, in lieu of the vaccine matter, it is altogether erroneous.

MOON, in his _Catalogue of the Plants of Ceylon_, has accidentally mentioned the kiri-anguna twice, being misled by the Pali synonym "kiri-hangula": they are the same plant, though he has inserted them as different, p.

21.] But that which arrests the attention even of an indifferent passer-by is the endless variety and almost inconceivable size and luxuriance of the _climbing plants and epiphytes_ which live upon the forest trees in every part of the island.