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there as a foment in contractions of the limbs occasioned by the land winds. In the Concan, the juice of the leaves with that of Maka (Eclipta alba) and Tulasi (Ocimum sanctum) is extracted, and Ajwan seeds are bruised and steeped in it, and given in doses of six massas for rheumatism. The juice in half tola closes with ghi and black pepper is also given, and in splenic enlargement 2 tolas of the juice with 2 tolas of cow's urine is given every morning (Dymock).

Chemical composition. — The leaves contain principally an essential oil and a resin. The oil possesses the odour of the drug and is neutral and almost colourless. The resin dissolves in alkaline solutions with a reddish- brown colour, softens below 40° C, and gives off aromatic vapours when heated. A tincture of the drug gives a green colour with ferric chloride. The ash of the air-dried leaves amounts to 7-75 per cent.

The fruits contain an acid resin, an astringent organic acid giving a green colour with ferric salts and a precipitate with gelatine, malic acid, traces of an alkaloid and colouring matter. The fruits previously dried at 100° gave 6-8 per cent, of ash (Pharmacog Indica. III. 75).

960, V. peduncularis, Wall.,Var. Roxburghiana, h.f.b.i., iv. 587 ; Roxb. 482.

Vern. : — Boruna ; Goda (B) ; Osai (Ass.) ; Bhadu, marak, (Santal) ; Karwru (Magh.) ; Hila-anwal (Cachar; ; Shelangri, (Garo) ; Navaladi (Kan.).

Habitat: — Behar, at Parasnath, E. Bengal and Khasia Terai.

A middle-sized or large deciduous tree, 20-40 ft. Bark thick. Wood purplish or reddish grey, hard, close-grained youngest shoots minutely grey pubescent, branchlets, petioles, and leaves glabrous. Leaves 3 foliate. Leaflets 4J by lin., acuminate, lanceolate ; mature glabrate above, densely covered by minute shining yellow resinous glands beneath, midrib sometimes puberulous ; petiolule of the middle leaflet J-§-in. Petiole 2-4 in., slender or sometimes slightly winged. Peduncles 3-4in., from the penultimate axils. Panicles often 6-8 by 2in., open. Bracts Agin, linear. Calyx iVm, grey-pubescent sub- truncate, Corolla, Jin., grey-pubescent lower lip longer than

the tube. Drupe £in. diam., cuboid globose, There are X26