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ception if given to women. after menstruation. Large doses 
are thought to-be narcotic. Exterually itis applied to. pros 
mote the absorption of tumours, boils, carbuneles, &c. Laville’s 
gout pills consist of 15 parts of extract of Alkekengi and 5 
parts of silicate of soda. Four to ten 5-grain pills are takem 
Description.—The fruit is about the size, shape and 
‘olour of a small dried cherry, skin smooth and shining, red- 
lish ed much ‘shrivelled ; it contains a large number of 
" presence of a small quantity of brown pulp, which has a fruity 
odour. 
hemical Ec dordiionelRieeisigoce and Chautard (WN. J. 
. 21, 24) found sugar and citric acid in the berries, and 
e leaves and calyx an amorphous bitter principle, Ph ysalin, 
160°, which is obtained as a whitish powcer on agitating 
aqueous infusion with chloroform, and is soluble. in 
1, but sparingly so in ether, cold water and diluted 
by erneiin, Handb. xvi., 191.) : 
PHYSALIS MINIMA, Linn. 
g.— Rheede Hort. Mal. «. tt. 70, 71. 
Hat. _—Throughout India. The plant in fruit. 
; sular.—Tulati-pati (Hind), K&knaj (Punj.), Ban-tepa- 
kari (Beng.), Thanmori, Chirbutli, Chirboti (Mar.), 
Tel.), Bondula (Can.). 
ry; Uses, &c.—This common weed of cultivation, 
1 Sanskrit Tankéri, occurs in two forms, one with a 
about the size of a pea and the other with a berry half 
diameter. “The former plant is pubescent and the 
_ Tankéri is considered by the Hindus to be 
and aperient, and is an ingredient in a medici- . 
en. for enlargement of the spleen ; tho other 
is mul, Hing, te — pepy 
