CUCURBITACE &. 77. 
ack of vomiting one hour and ten minutes after administra- 
ion of the drug, no symptoms appeared to be induced. 
MOMORDICA COCHINCHINENSIS, Spreng. 
- Fig.—Bot. Mag., t. 5145. 
Hab. +-Bongal to Tenasserim, Destale Peninsula, Canned 
Vernacular.—Kakrol (Hind., Beng.). 
History, Uses, &c.—The seeds after the shells have 
been removed are fried and eaten either alone or with other 
food. (Makhzan.) They are considered to be good for cough and 
ins in the chest. Powdered they form one of the in- 
edients of the hot stuff known as Jhal in Bengal, which, 
xed with melted butter, is given to women immediately after 
parturition, and daily for a few days afterwards. Jhal is 
believed to act as a stimulant, destroying the excess of 
legmatic humours which are supposed to be produced in the 
ly after delivery. (C. 'L. Boso. ) A plaster made with the roots 
s said to promote the growth of the hair, and prevent its fall- 
; off. The plant is called in Sanskrit Karkataka, from the 
semblance of the seeds to the shell of acrab. This plant 
is the Muricia cochinchinensis of Loureiro, who says that the 
berries are used for colonring food, and that the seeds and 
leaves are aperient and abstergent and useful in hepatic and 
lenic obstructions, in unhealthy ulcerations, lumbago; and 
ternally in procidentia utert et ani, fractures and pees: 
the bones. 
Description.—The seeds are 3 by & of an inch in 
ameter, and } ofan inch thick, ovate, compressed, black ; 
rugated on the margins and sculptured on the faces. The | 
lis fragile, and encloses an oily kernel. : 
Chemical composition.—Kakrol seeds deprived of siete 
elded 43°74 per cent. of a slightly greenish oil when eate 
ith light petroleam ether. ae oil pon 
properties a thin 
