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him to use Bhui-dodi. On this the accused, it was reported, 
obtained some Uhwi-dodi roots, and having reduced them 
_ to powder, mixed this with some flour, from which subsequently 
the food eaten at the meal referred to was prepared. Dr. G, 
-G. Bopardikar of Pandharpur, who kindly supplied us with 
the plant, states that the leaves are generally used, pounded 
and mixed with flour to destroy rats. On enquiry the village 
Vaids informed him that the juice of the root is given with 
milk as a tonic, and that the leaves are pounded and used as 
an application to unhealthy ulcers and wounds to induce 
healthy granulation. 
TT. fasciculata is an erect or scarcely twining glabrous plant, 
with ovate, coriaceous leaves, decreasing in size upwards. The 
peduncles are erect, slender and flexuous,bearing at the flexures 
2 to 3 few-flowered fascicles of minute flowers. ‘The follicles are 
@)>ut 2 inches in length, ovoid-lanceolate and glabrous, with a 
very thick pericarp. The seeds are ¢ of an inch in length, 
broadly ovoid and quite flat. The may: is thick, long and 
woody, from one to two inches in diameter atthe crown. 
| It is covered with a light brown corky bark, fissured 
longitudinally. 
Chemical composttion.—The leaves were very mucilaginous 
when treated with water, and even the aleoholic extract when 
‘aporated to dryness made a thick solation with a large 
quantity of water. The latter solution was precipitated by 
alkaloidal reagents, and was most acrid to the taste. Shaken 
ith ether a resinous body was removed, and then made 
Bele with ammonia, which produced a slight precipitate, 
again shaken with ether, a small quantity of an amor~ 
roots sesdtiotad to fine powder were made into a tinct 
rong aes and the alee tincture ee re 
