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Rh continued and intermittent fevers. They have also been found useful in some cases of asthma."

In Madras, an ointment is made from the powdered seeds with castor oil and applied externally in hydrocele and orchitis (Watt, ii 406.)

In Malay, the young leaves are used in intermittent fevers and for expelling intestinal worms (Dr. Ch. Rice, Watt. ii. 5).

The seeds are officinal in the Indian Pharmacopœia, and useful in malarial fevers.

In disorders of the liver, the tender leaves are considered very efficacious (T. N. Mukerji).

In Cochin China, the leaves are reckoned as a de-obstruent and emmenagogue and that an oil expressed from them is useful in convulsions, palsy and similar complaints (Drury).

The seeds of Cœsalpina bonducella yield an alkaloid, for which the name natin is suggested. The oil has D27 0.9132, iodine value 96.1, and saponification value 292.8.

J. Ch. I. 15-4-1912, p. 357.

Habitat : — The Eastern and Western Peninsulas.

Very near C. Bonducella, Fleming, from which it differs by its more robust, less downy branches, larger leaflets (often 2-3in. long), the absence of the reduced stipular pinna, by its smaller erect, not squarrose, bracts and more tropical dispersion (J. G. BAKER).

Uses : — The seeds of this are of a yellow color. Messrs Hœckel and Schlagendenhauffen have obtained from the cotyledons of both kinds a bitter principle as a white powder. Clinical experience is reported to have proved beyond doubt that this bitter principle represents the therapeutic properties of the seed, and Dr. Isnard reports that in doses of 10 to 20 centigrams its effects in intermittent fever equal those of the salts of quinine. (Ph. Journal, July 31st, 1886, pp. 8 and 12 )

Syn. : — C. paniculata, Roxb. 358. Vern. : — Kaku mûllu (Mal.),