The formula is N? (13 F724 02, 
"2 NYMPHHZACEZ. 
containing § a part of the dried flowers, 1 part sugar, and 5 
parts water, dose 2 to 3drachms. A powder is also: used. 
As an externally cooling application Lotus. flowers are ma 
into a paste with sandalwood or emblic myrobalans. 
The seeds of N. speciosum(Kamal kakri),* and of Huryal 
jferow (Makhana) are used as articles of diet. In times 
scarcity the roots and scapes (bishi) of N. speciosum are als 
made use of, but they are bitter and unpalatable. The sta 
contained in the thick rhizome, separated by rasping a 
washing, constitutes a sort of arrowroot used by the Chine 
under the name of Gaan-feen. (D. Hanbury.) 
Description.—The calyx consists of four to five deciduo 
sepals ; the corolla of numerous deciduous petals, arranged 
several rows; the stamens are numerous, in several ro’ 
attached with the petals to the base of the receptacle ; 
stigma is sessile ; the dry flowers have a brown colour rt 
seeds are black and like small acorns. 
ution is intensely bi 
the same as that given 
Pelletier and Couerbe to menispermine and paramenispermit 
and the three alkaloids are probably isomeric. Fa: 
* Bakla-i-kubti or Bakla-i-nabti of Persian writers (Coptie bean). 
