ABSTRACT
The Lopo root is probably the so-called root of Lopez, Radix indica Lopeziana (Baillon, Traiti de Botanique midicale, Paris, 1884, p. 862)— introduced into medicine by Gobins, botanically Toddalia aculeata Pers. (T. asiatica) ; and also perhaps some cognate species, such as the paniculata Sav. of the Mascar Islands, or the lanceolata L. of tropical Africa. It was used as Stomachic, and in the cure of malaria, intermittent fevers, cholera, dysentery, rheumatism, etc. (See Dujardin-Beaumets, Les Plantes Midicinales, 1889 ; Dragendorf G ., Die Heilpfanzen, 1898.)
2 For the more usual form omra, which is a corruption of the Arabic umara, plural of amir, Desideri writes ombrd, or ombrdo, with ombrai as the plural. This form is not recorded in Hobson-Jobson.
