359 Chirpoota.--A medicine of India, cool and dry, and aperient; cures difficulty of breathing and cough. 360 Chiria.--A name for Roonjisk, called also Chituck. 361 Chirownjee.--"The nut of the Chironjia Sapida." A round or oval seed like the peepul, of a dark-brown colour. The tree is of the milky kind, the leaves white, or of an earthy color, an oil is expressed from its kernel. A. Hubboossum'na. P. Nookul Khaja. It is sweet and oleaginous, heavy and luxative, beneficial in bilious and mucous disorders, in foulness of the blood, heat of the body, and bruises, and it increases wind. It is also written that Chirownjie is the kernel of the stone of a fruit, of the appearance and taste of the phalsa, and that it is dried and carried hence to various countries. It is very common in Bundelcund, it ripens in the commencement of the hot weather, and the capsule is said to be separated from the kernel in a hand-mill. The tree is large: the nuts are strung on thread and used by the natives as necklaces, and they are roasted and eaten as food. 362 Cherayta, called also Punsaal. "Gentiana Chirayata, Roxb. Sp. Ch. Herbaceous, leaves stem-clasping, lanceolate, 3-5-nerved, corol rotate, four cleft, smooth stamens, four, capsule ovate, bifurcate, as long as the calyx." It is bitter, cool, and dry, light, and producing wind, beneficial in cough, general heat, and fever. A. RusbuzzËreera. 363 Jest in P. Roo Tootia. It is hot and light, and during digestion cool and heavy; facilitates the fusion of metals. 364 Chesteymud, called also Chestee, also Chitenmud. "Glycyrrhira Glabra. W. Glycine Abrus, Linn." in Arabic AssÛoloos'oos. 365 Chukunder.--A name for Saluk. 366 Chikara.--A kind of deer; its tail is black, and its meat sweet, cool, light, and astringent, stomachic, cardiac, and beneficial in disorders of wind, bile, and mucus. 367 Chukora. In P. Rubk. "A variety of Titroo Rufus." 368 Chukua Chukui.--"Anas Casarea." The Braminee Duck. Its flesh is sweet, cool, moist, and heavy, strengthens the system, restrains the flow of urine and fÊces, cures affections of wind, bile, and blood. In P. it is named Soorkhab and Chukawuck, A. KumbÈera. 369 Chukeerka.--The white kind of the seed, called Soorkh, a common seed, used as a weight; properties the same. 370 Choekurk.--A name of the grain Koolthie. 371 Chukond.--A name of the Penwar or Chukwand. 372 Chukotrah.--A fruit of Hindost'han; its tree like the Rutael, with double leaves, the under one very small. It is very easily engrafted on the Rutael tree. The fruit is green and round; its capsule granulated; its green color is that of a small melon; inside it is red; the divisions very small. It is sweet, acid, and bitter, and is ate with salt or sugar. It is cool in its properties, allays thirst from bile, creates appetite. In no book of Hindost'han have I been able to find any account of it. "Citrus Decumanus. The Pumalo, Batabi Neemboo, Pumpleuoes."