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led off, and the Temainder allowed to evaporate by expo- 
toair. The alcoholic distillate contained no volatile prin- 
- The alcoholic extract contained a large amount of an 
r-coloured oil soluble in petroleum ether, as well as 
8. By agitation of the alkaline alcoholic extract with 
> 8 somewhat bitter extract was obtained, which, besides 
taining resins, afforded evidence of the presence of an alka- 
which gave reactions with the usual alkaloidal reagents; 
which afforded uo special colour reactions. We have pro- 
ionally called this principle Vernonine. 
imerce.—The plant is common in waste lect through- 
ndia. The country people emis the fruit and bring it 
sale in the cold weather. 
¥alue.—Rs. 34 per Surat beth of 374 lbs. 
‘ Vernonia cinerea, Less., Eheede Hort. Mal. z., t. 64, 
= Southern, and Western India. In the Hindi and 
hi vernaculars it bears the Sanskrit name; in Guzerathi 
Sddeori, a modification of the same name; in Bengali 
seem; and in Tamil Sira- shengalanir. Sadat the latter 
© Ainslie (Mat. Ind. IT., 363) notices it as the Gherntti- 
mma of the Telingis, used in medicine by the Hindus, in 
ction, to promote perspiration in febrile affections. In 
i tanine it is described as cold, sweet, strengthening, 
ngent, correcting all the humors. For the. numerous 
honyms, and for 2 description of this very variable plant, we 
refer the reader. to the Flora of British India. It has 
very sensible properties, and the medicinal virtues ascribed 
by the Hindus appear to us to be imaginary. 
‘lephantopus scaber, Linn., Wight Ic., t, 1086; 
eede Hort. Mal. x., t. 7, common in ey places eeniek- 
India, is the Go-jihva, “ox tongue,” of Sanskrit writers, 
x ibed in the Nighantas as cold, light, astring t, 
al, alterative and gebritnges expelling ger Pp 
thral discharges.  Rheede 
