456 «LEG UMINOS.®. 
_ time the gum is much used as a sthatttabd for oe by natives ° 
-and Europeans with satisfactory results. We have tried the 
_ seeds as an anthelmintic, and are inclined to think favourably 
of them; they have an aperient-action. An infusion of two or 
three aaa is used for this purpose. When pounded with 
-lemon-juice and applied to the skin they act powerfully as a 
rubefacient- We haye used them successfully for the cure of 
the form of herpes known as Dhobie’s itch. In the Concana 
poultice of the flowers boiled in water is applied to the abdomen 
_ in difficult micturition, and two tolds of the water with nitre is 
given internally. _Dr. Fancourt Willis informs us that. the 
- Arab horse-dealers put one seed into each feed of corn to keep 
their horses in condition. 
Description. tha leaves are onal and ternate, 
from 8 to 16 inches long, leaflets emarginate, or rounded at the 
apex, leathery above, shining and pretty smooth below, slightly. 
hoary, entire, the pair are obliquely oval, from four to six - 
inches long, and from three to four and a half broad, the 
exterior one obovate, and considerably larger than the lateral 
ones ; the flowers are very large, papilionaceous, their colour 
a Beantifal deep red, shaded with orange and silver coloured 
‘ down*; seeds flat, kpouk 14 inch long, 1 inch broad and 
- 1+16th inch thick; testa dark reddish brown, thin, smooth, — | 
- veined; hilum prominent ; cotyledons large and leafy, surface — 
" -yeined ; radicle small, taste a little acrid. The gum occurs in 
commerce as small, flattish or angular fragments of a very 
deep ruby colour, and unless held between the eye and the 
light seems to be opaque; it is mixed with numerous small 
- particles of light grey corky bark ; the taste is purely astrin- 
gent. The secretion in a fresh ptitie i is ruby-coloured, and is 
soluble for the most part [in water; when kept, for some time 
_ * Amir Khusru, the Turkoman poet, likens the flowers to a lion’s claws 
stained with blood— : 
aged od wed G54 aly dad Uf pelts ox 3 
‘The Paleh expands its clutches of red flowers like the claws of the fierce 
Sipe steeped in blood. 
