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The seeds of C. ternatea contain 12'8 per cent. of moisture 
and 6 per cent. of ash. Ether removes a bland greenish fixed 
oil and a light brown resin. Alcohol extracts a bitter acid 
resin, apparently the active principle, a tannic acid giving a 
_ blue-black colour with ferric chloride, and a large propor- 
a glucoside. 
tion of glucose. Water alone dissolves the acrid principle, 
which is precipitated by iodine solution, readily decomposes 
with the formation of sugar, and in other respects resembles 
de ee * 
. .Commerce.—The dried root is to be found in the shops . 
sometimes, Ree 
s Dalbergia sympathetica, Nimmo, Jour. Linn Soc. 
iv., Suppl. 42, a plant of the Western Peninsula, ‘Pentgul - 
(Mar.), Tit&bli (Goa.). is . ; 
The leaves are used in Goa as an alterative. It isa very. 
temarkable scandent shrub; the stem studded thickly with 
large blunt thorns, often nine inches long, some of them con- — 
torted so as to assist in supporting it upon high trees 3 the 
leaves are pinnate, 4 to 6 inches long, the leaflets delicate, 
_ obtuse or emarginate, $ to 1 inch long, thinly silky at first, © 
especially beneath; the flowers are in short, axillary cymes ; 
calyx 1-12th of an inch long, silky, witha pair of small obtuse, 
 adpressed bracteoles; teeth short, obtuse ; corolla twice’ the , 
length of the calyx, yellowish white; pod generally one-seeded, - 
membranous, obtuse, about 2 inches long: and i of an inch 
broad with an unusually short stalk. The bark is used asa 
lép to remove pimples. The foliage resembles that of the 
Tamarind, and is eaten by cattle. The flowers 4 case es 
: for the plant is Ana 
In the Concan the juice of the leaves of D. volubilis, Rozb., 
: _ Alei (Mar.), is applied to aphthe,; and used as a gargle in sore 
hroat. . The root-juice with cummin and sugar is given in 
_° gonorrhoea. 
