oe LEGUMINOSEZ. 
boiling bisulphide.. Pterocarpine isa white crystallinesubstance — 
insoluble in water and cold alcohol, but soluble to. some extent — 
in boiling alcohol, it is slightly soluble in boiling ether, which — 
deposits it on cooling in crystalline flakes ; it crystallizes: from 
_ chloroform in fine prisms. A sohition of 4: 64 grms. in 100c.c, 
‘of chloroform, is strongly levogyre [a]j = — 211°. , heated to 
_ 145° it softens and melts at 152°, turning scelily yellow. 
Formula C!° H8 03; it is neutral to reagents ; insoluble in acids 
solution. 
heat Somat «= 
and boiling liquor potassee, but is acted upon by fused potash ° | 
‘evolving a coumarin odour, Nitric acid forms with it a grees 3 
Homopterocarpine has the same general properties. Formulg 
both of these substances are allied to the Coumarins. _ 
Commerce.—Red sandalwood comes from Southern India, the 
felling of the trees is under Government. control, and they 
-yield a considerable revenue. It is imported into Bombay. 
and Calcutta from the Malabar Coast.’ Value, Rs. 15 to 28 
Cl? Hi? O53. MM. Cazeneuve and Hugonneng consider. that 4 
per kandy of 74 cwts, The variation in price 1s: upon E 
the iquenety in the market. 
Ae PTEROCARPUS MARSUPIUM, Roxb. 
~ Fig.—Rosb. Cor, Pl. ii., t. 116; Bedd. Fl..Syluy t. 215 — 
_ bourse (Fr.). ‘ 
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Hab.— Western Peninsula, Ceylon. The gum. 
- Bentl. and Trim., t. 81. Indian ‘Kino tree paaiks i, ES a : 
~ Vernacular.—Bija, Bijasér (Hind.), Bibla,-Honné (Can-) 
- Asin (Mar.), Vengai-maram (Tam.), Peddagi (Tel. be 
History, Uses, &c.—Neither Hindu.or -Mahometan 
‘medical writers appear to notice Malabar kino. Rumphius - 
- (iii.,.24,) calls the tree Pterocarpus indicus, and remarks that. a 
.the gum looks like dried ‘blood, and cures diarrhea; he also 
says that the bruised leaves are. pepe to weil: sores, and 
skin ¢ eruptions. 
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