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_ occasionally met with; it has a sweetish astringent taste, and 
_ under the microscope is seen to be composed of minute needle- 
_ shaped crystals. When placed in water the colouring matter 
3 of the particles of wood mixed with the drug colour the water 
__ fed, but the khersil remains undissolved; in boiling water it is 
_ completely soluble, but is thrown down in conglomerate masses 
of small needle-shaped crystals npon the water cooling; it is 
also soluble in rectified spirit, and is deposited in the same form 
on the spirit evaporating. In native practice this substance is 
valued as a remedy in relaxed conditions of the throat. 
A similar substance has been brought to our notice by the 
Conservator of Forests for Malabar.’ It is a yellow erystal- 
tomentosum),. 
frequently given to women after confinement as a tonic, and 
to promote the secretion of milk. 
ACACIA PENNATA, Wiild. 
_ Fig.—Bot. Mag., t. 3408. 
Hab.—India. The bark. 
Vernacular—Shemb (Mar.), Biswtil (Hind.), Arar (Can.), 
_ scattered, numerous, straight, or at length recurved ; pinnew 8 
to 20 pair; leaflets beyond 30 pair, narrow linear, glabrous; 
_ heads of flowers globose-panicled ; legume glabrous, or reddish 
with fine tomentum. r) k is an article of commerce, 
_ being used to tan fishing nets at Bombay; it occurs in strips 
- about 8 feet long. In the Concan the leaf-juice mixed with 
milk is given to infants who suffer from indigestion with green 
stools. In bleeding from the gums the leaves are chewed with 
‘cummin and sugar; they are also rubbed to a pulp and mixed 
with cow’s milk, cummin and sugar as a remedy for scalding 
of the urine. The dose is 2 tolas. 
Chemical composition.—The bark afforded 14:2 per cent. 
aqueous extract containing 88 per cent. of tannin. 
line deposit found in-the wood of the Poon spar (Callophylium — 
Karasor—Is a mixture of catechu and myrrh, which is 
Description, Uses, &c.—A scandent shrub; prickles — 
