533 LEGUMINOSZ. 
(13°3 per cent.) and causticity of the ash point to the fact 
that, different to other kinos, much of the tannic acid is in 
combination, 
MIMOSA PUDICA, Zinn. 
Fig.— Bot. Rep., t. 544. Sensitive plant (Eng.), Sensitive © 
commune (I’r.) 
Hab.—Hotter parts of India, probably introduced from 
Tropical America. 
Vernacular.—Lajalé (Hind.), Lajak (Beng.), Lajri (Mar.), 
Total-vadi (Tam.), Mudugudavare (Can.). 
History, Uses, &c.—A native of Brazillong naturalized 
in India, and called in Sanskrit Khadiri and Anjalikarika, 4.e., 
joining the hands in worship or prayer. Mfr Muhammad 
Husain states that it is much valued as a medicine by the 
Indians, and is considered to be resolvent, alterative, and use- 
fnl in diseases arising from corrupted blood and bile. The 
juice is also applied externally to fistuloussores. He says that 
at the time of the Pakhad Nakshatra, the Indian Mahometans 
resort to the places where the plant grows, wash, and offer 
some sweets and burn incense; they then gather the plant, 
taking care that the shadow of the gatherer does not fall upon 
it, and dry it in the shade: when the moon is again in the 
same Nakshatra, they powder it and mix about four grains 
with cow’s milk, and say the following mantra seven times 
before they take it :— 
Ol yh. se) 50) lot Sine US yy Syoll sy BUY rom 
‘The medicine is taken every day for three weeks in the same 
manner,—in the first week all bilions diseases and fevers are 
_ Supposed to be cured, in the second piles, jaundice, &c., and 
_ in the third leprosy, scabs and pox. 
, Pte Ora tec we egamemnee ioe ae 
_* This mantra appears to he's farrago of Arabic, Persian and Sanskritof. 
