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Rh tryosine, an insoluble basic salt, 2Pb(C 9 H 10 O 3 N) 2 ,5Pb(OH) 2 - This separates in a granular state and is readily filtered and washed. J. Oh. I. for Feb, 15, 1911 p. 148.

"My experience has been that Bombay oils usually give the highest iodine value, but that these vary from year to year with the crop and season."

Oil.

Iodine value.

Sp. gr. at 15 3.

Hexabro- mides. 1 2

M. pt.

Calcutta oil

185

0-9322

39-1 39-3

140-5°C.

Dr. Harry Ingle in the J. Ch. I. for March 31, 1911 p. 344.

Syn. :— Linura trigynum, Roxb. 277.

Vern. : — Karkún, kuar, gud batal, basant, bál-basant, gulashruf (Pb.) Abai (Deccan).

Habitat : — Hilly parts of India, Simla. From the Pan jab to Sikkim. Behar, Assam, Chittagong. Southward from the Bombay Ghats to the Nilgiri Hills. Very common in the Dun, and the Hills around.

A tufted glabrous shrub, 2-3ft. high, with erect and prostrate rooting ; terete, rather stout, soft branches ; leaves entire, ovate-lanceolate, 2-4in., narrowed into a slender stalk ; tip obtuse or acute, minutely mucronate, lower surface pale. Flowers about 1in. dia., axillary, solitary or in small clusters, sometimes combined in a terminal corymb. Sepals 5, lanceolate, acute, green. Petals primrose-yellow, much longer than the calyx, obovate. Stamens usually in 2 sets, 3 long, 2 short. Ovary 5-celled. Styles usually 3, sometimes 4-7, longer or shorter than the stamens, more or less united, rarely free. Capsule size of a pea ; papery (Kanjilal), globose ¼in. diam. ; separating into as many valves as there are styles. See Darwin's Forms of Flowers, Chap. VII.

Use : — Said to be used as a medicine for cattle (Dr. Stewart).