s 1} inch or more in diameter, nearly smooth below, but at the - 
112 :, 7 PAPAVERACEL, 
rehieli can 1 be alaied.: in ctuitingly the same way as. -morphia, 
and which: agrees with it in all important reactions. As the — 
alkaloid occurs in a very small amount, a sufficient quantity — 
has never been prepared. for ultimate analysis. The ash of — 
the seeds is largely sontcer’. of alkaline phosphates and 4 
sulphates. a 
' Toxicology. Tn 1878, a case bauteen’ ; in Bombay in which : 
_anumber of people suffered from vomiting and purging after 4 
using sweet oil which had been adulterated with Argemone — 
oil, The adulteration may be detected by the rich orange red 9 
colour developed when strong nitric acid is added to the. oil 7 
ot to mixtures containing it. Inthe same year samples of oll — 
were received by the Punjab Chemical Analyser from Amritsar, — 
Simla and other towns which were said to possess irritant ; 
properties, causing purging and vomiting. The oil was stated — 
-to have been imported from the N.-W. Provinces and. to have — 
been made from Siyél-kénta (Argemone mewicana). 
Commerce,—Occasionally large parcels of the seed are 
offered for sale, but.they are not pips placed, as the oil burns 
with a very smoky flame. 
MECONOPSIS WALLICHII, Hook. 
“pip. — Bot. Mag., t. 4668.- 
Hab. ——Temperate Himalaya. . Shen ae a 
Description.— Meconopsis aculeata, Royle, Ill. 67, £4Bs ce 
-Hook. Bot. Mag., t« 5456, and M. nepalensis, De., are reput od 4 
. to be narcotic, but as O'Shaughnessy gave a Sohn of the a 
alcoholic extract of the former plant to a dog without producing — 
any effect, it cannot have very active properties. M. Wallichit 
has been examined by us; it is a large herbaceous plant with — 
tapering roots 6 inchés long or more, sometimes bifurcated, — 
ee a 8 very scaly from the remains of nen round.the — : : 
