RANUNCULACES. IS. 
much brown granular matter; within this are from 5 to 10 
vascular bundles, connected together by a cambial zone, made 
up of several rows of small, dark brown cells ; the position of 
the bundles is very irregular, consequently the zone has a 
_ peculiar waving course. In the central portion of the tuber. 
_ starchy parenchyme is again met with ; the starch has not been 
altered by heat. 
Chemical composition.—Twelve ounces of the roots treated 
_ by Dragendorff’s process for aconitine, yielded no trace of 
~ alkaloid upon evaporation of the benzine solution. The. treat- 
ment of the drug by acidulated water extracted a large quantity 
of black extractive which was almost entirely soluble in alcohol. 
It seems probable that the roots undergo some form of prepara- 
4 tion during which they are charged with foreign extractive 
3 matters, and probably rendered almost inert as a medicine. 
_ Commerce.—Jadwar is brought for sale to the Indian cities in 
_ small gc by religious ~ pe etme 
DELPHINIUM ZALIL, Aitch. et Hemsley. 
Fig.—Trans. Linn. Soc. Ser. 2. Bot. Vol. iii, Pl. 3. 
Hab.—The Badghis and Khorasan. The herb. 
_ Vernacular.—Zarir (Arab.), Zalil, Asfrak, Asperag (Pers.), 
_ Tréyaman, Gul-jalil (Bomb. ), Gafiz, (Punj.). 
History, Uses, &C.—In Hindu medical meee a drug 
_ called Tréyam4na is frequently mentioned as a remedy for 
_ enlargement of the abdominal viscera ; it appears to have been 
q well-known, as it has numerous synonyms such as Balddeva, 
_ Balabhadra, Mangalya, Méngalyarha, and Arjaka, signifying 
__ that it was considered to be very anspicious.* The same name 
_ is still current in Northern India and Guzerat to indicate — 
_ the drug imported from Persia under the name of Zalil, — ; 
4 * Yellow is a most auspicious colour amongst the Hindus, the garm 
_ the bride are dyed of this colour. _ The word Praacrnriag still exists 
Persian ROR OER: with the meaning of “ yellow’ “ diarrhoea, 
