UMBELLIFERM. 141 
th water, the colour was slightly yellow. With reagents it 
the following colour reactions:—Bromine dissolved in ~ 
oform deep dirty red; alcoholic hydrochloric acid yellow ; 
centrated sulphuric acid deep orange red; concentrated 
veloped, but no marked reaction, the iodine freely dissolved ; 
h Fréhde’s reagent a deep red was produced, rapidly chang- 
ng todeep blue. Sulphuricacidand ferric chloride gave a dirty 
ed. Picric acid-dissolved in the oil easily in the cold. No 
rystals separated on cooling to 195 C. The alkaloid afforded 
marked precipitates with alkaloidal reagents :—concentrated 
ric acid yellow; sulphuric acid brown: no reaction with 
ric chloride. An alcoholic extract was agitated with ether, 
nd after driving off the ether, the ethereal extract was 
heated with caustic soda, when an odour was. developed very 
“similar to that of otto of roses. 
FERULA ALLIAC EA, Dieu 
: Hab. -—Persia. The gum-resin. 
Vernacular .—Hing (Hind., Beng.), ‘Kéyam, paaiaiin 
lam.), Inguva (Tel. ), Ingu (oan: ), Vagérni, Hing (Guz.). 
Fitistory, Uses, &c.—The old Greck and Latin writers 
n Materia Medica mention two kinds of Silphium—one good 
r sweet, and the other fetid. Theophrastus in his History of 
ants (vi., 8), speaks of two varieties, of the stem and of the root. 
Says: dmdv 8 Sirrov Eyer, Tov pev do TOU KavAod Tov dE dd THs pelns, 
s¢cav. - Dioscorides mentions — 
