_ APOCYNACBZ, AID 
The amylic alcoliol extract consisted of a dark brown strongly 
acid glucosidal acid, soluble in water, and forming soluble 
_ Compounds with alkalies, astringent matter giving a dirty 
greenish coloration’ with ferric chloride, and dark brown 
flocks insoluble in water, probably phlobaphene. 
| We injected +495 of a gram of the amylic alcohol extract 
Picived ; in water and a few drops of ammonia, into a fasting 
_ ¢at’'s stomach without inducing purgative effects. In another: 
; experiment we employed the dried leaves, which were extract- 
ed with alcchol, then dried, moistened with dilute sulphuric: 
acid, and extracted with hot alcohol in the manner described. 
2 by Stockman in his note on the active principle of Senna 
: leaves (Pharm. Journ. [3] XV., 749). Operating in this man- 
_ her we isolated a glucosidal acid which had some purgative 
action when injected into a cat’s stomach, and which a more 
thorough investigation may prove to be similar to cathartic 
decid. ’ The point is of some economic importance, as the plant. 
is a very common. see ie sage nae: ee of Kitch a dont 
able cathartic. ; 
CARISSA CARANDAS, Lim. 
” Fig.—Wight Ic., t. 426 and 1289 ; Roxb. Cor. Pl. mle 77; 
Beda. Fl, Sylv., t. 19, f. 6. : 
‘Hab. —Throughout India, in dry, sandy or. rosy ground. 
| The bark, leaves and fruit. 
~ Vernacular.—Karaunda, Karonda, Timukhia (Htnd.), Kuru- 
mia, Karamcha (Beng.), Karavanda (Mar.), Kalaka (Tam.),. 
ivi-kaya (Tel.), Karekai, Korinda (Can.), Karamada 
_ History, Uses, &c.—This shrub is the Karamardaka 
and Krishna-phala of Sanskrit writers, and is described in the 
hantas as. yaad hot, ‘and acid when unripe, anda generator 
pre 
scorn made use of by both Froreent and ti 
