570 . ROSACEM. 
The total alkalinity of the ash expressed as KHO Was | 
‘ equal to 61°76 per cent. calculated on the ash: the alkalinity 
of the aqueous extractive ash calculated in a similar manner 
being equal to 44°44 per cent. of KHO. The total free acidity 
of the fruit expressed as Na HO was equivalent to 3-80 per cent. 
Commerce.—'The imports of Ali Bokhér& into India are 
considerable, as it is much used as an article of diet. Value, | 
Rs. 8 to 12 per Surat maund of 373 lbs. The price varies with . 
the quantity in the market; there is but little difference in 
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HAGENIA ABYSSINICA, Lam. - 
Fig.—Bentl.. and Trim. t. 102. | 
Hab.—Abyssinia, The flowers. 
Vernacular.—Kassu (Guz.) 
History, Uses, &c.—This drug appears not to have 
been known in India until within the last quarter of a century, 
when a demand for it in Hurope having sprung up, it began to 
be imported into Bombay from Abyssinia vid Aden. The use 
of the flowers as an anthelmintic by the Abyssinians was first 
made known by Bruce in 1773. In 1811 the plant was de- 
scribed by Lamarck, who named it Hagenia, in honour of Dr. 
Hagen of Konigsberg. The name of Brayera, which it also 
bears, was given it in honour of Brayer, a French physician 
of Constantinople, who wrote a pamphlet upon its use as an 
anthelmintic. In 1850 it was introduced into Europe, and in 
1864 it became official i in the British Pharmacopeia. At the 
present time the imports into Bombay are declining, and there 
appears to be very little demand for the drug in Europe. M. 
W. Schimper, Governor of Adoa, in an excellent article upon 
Cousso, mentions several other yermifuges used by the Abys- 
sinians—viz., Habbi-tchogo, bulbs of Ozalis anthelmintica; 
Habbi-tsalim, Jasminium floribundum ; Bolbidé, Celosia ado- 
__ensis ;- Musenna or Muséna, bark of Albizzia anthelmintica, — 
ae — which M. Thiel has extracted Musénine ; cote seed of ¢ 
