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hich turned dirty red on boiling. In alkalies these crystals 
ere soluble, the solution being of a bright yellow colour; acetate 
of lead gave a bright yellow precipitate; an aqueous solution 
Beds an acid reaction, and at once ee nitr ate of silver. This 
i give any reaction with the usual alkaloidal re-agents. 
_ Cold water extracted 14°20 per cent., the extract contained 
gum, a trace of albumin and colouring matter, but did not 
reduce an alkaline solution of sulphate of copper. 
| -Mundulea suberosa, Benth., Bedd. Fl. Sylv. 85; Hook. 
¢. Plant., t. 120, Syn.—Tephrosia suberosa, is a stout, erect 
‘shrub eesieing in hill valleys in the Western Peninsula and 
utiful rose-coloured flowers, which form terminal racemes. 
he leaves resemble Senna leaves. The seeds are used in 
thern and Western India as a fish poison. They stupefy 
€ fish, which are then readily taken by the hand. 
The pods are about 4 inches long, straight, silky, contracted 
tween the seeds, with both sutures thickéued so as to form 
ominent borders ; seeds 6 to 8, kiduey-shaped, laterally com- 
sed, about 4 in. in length and 2 in. in breadth, of a pale 
yellow ee Beneath the thick, fissured, soft corky bark 
le stem is a compact inner bark of a green colour, which has 
bitter taste and has the same effect upon fish as the seeds. 
Mundalea séeds and bark contain a greenish yellow resin 
uble in carbon bisulphide, benzol, chloroform; amylic 
ohol, ether, hot alcohol, and partly in caustic meee witha 
ALHAGI MAURORUM, go ou, 
ke Janibi 2 Spitk. efit MO. Camel ‘hora (Eng. " 
Manne (I’r 
Ceylon. It is frequently cultivated in gardens on account of its 
