randia

[Named after Isaac Rand.] Bot.: A genus of Garden ide. Randia dumetorum is a small thorny shrub growing in the Him a lay as. The fruit is a safe emetic; externally applied, it is an anodyne in rheumatism; an infusion of the bark is given to produce nausea. The unripe fruit of R. uliginosa , also Indian, is roasted in wood-ashes, and then given for diarrhea and dysentery. The natives eat the roasted fruits of both trees; raw, that of the first species is used to poison fish. In the Northwest Provinces it is employed in calico printing and dyeing to intensify the color. The fruit of R. aculeata is used as a blue dye. rand-ite, subst. [After T. D. Rand; suff. -ite ( Min.).] Min.: A mineral described, after an analysis of a small amount of impure material, as a hydrous carbonate of calcium and uranium. Occurs as an incrustation of a canary-yellow color on granite at Frank ford, Pennsylvania.