588 SAXIFRAGACEZ. 
carbonate when the plant was burnt constituted the major 
portion of the ash, which amounted to 12°87 per cent, 
Tho starch was estimated by conversion into glucose by 
boiling it with a 1 per cent. hydrochloric acid solution for four 
hours, and titrating the resulting liquor with Febling’s copper 
tartrate solution, : 
The table gives the quantity of the different constituents of 
the rhizome of Sawifraga ligulata as far as they were identified 
in the foregoing analysis :— 
Wax and odorous principle............ "92 
Gallic acid neg 117 
Tannic acid .. wee ~ 14°S6 
Glucose POE ae 5°60, 
Mueilage ........ et 2-78 
Meiarabin, albumen, &¢....s00-..ce.00. 7°85, 
Stateless &icscs: ee FOO; 
Calcium oxalate . aoa LENGI 
Mineral salts eee 6 oe 
RIA ccsccckcs ater st 58 
Crude fibre . : 20°80 
Moisture and loss..... 11°61 
100°00 
DICHROA FEBRIFUGA, Lour. 
Fig.— Wall. Pl. As. Rar., t. 218; Bot, Mag., t. 3046. 
Hab.—Himalaya, Khasia mountains, Jaya, China. 
_ Vernacular.—Basak (Hind.), Singnamook (Bhutan), Geboka- 
nak (Lepeha), : 
History, Uses, &c.—A shrub of the upper hill forests 
from 4,000 to, 8,000 feet. It was first brought to notice by 
Loureiro (Fl. Cochin. 301 ), who says:—It is febrifuge and 
_ cures quotidian, tertian, and quartan fevers; if taken in the. 
crude state it usually causes vomiting, but if slowly stewed in 
ine until the latter has evaporated, it purges the bowels and a 
