4 SCROi'EULARlNE^. 



crystallme extractive was obtained by making tbe above acid 

 solution of the alcoKolic extract alkaline and agitating with 

 etber ; wbile cbloroforni subsequently extracted a red-brown 

 amorphous mass. 



w 



Botb of tbese extractives reduced Febling's solution, and many 

 changes in colour were noticed, indicating that these substances 



matter 



mu 



iponding 



per cent, of glucose, 1'29 percent, of saccharose, 16*76 per cent. 

 of moisture, 4*11 per cent, of ash, and 32'75 per cent, of 

 cellulose and lignin» No reaction indicating tannin was 

 obtained with iron salts, but an aqueous solution of the alcoholic 

 extract yielded a slight precipitate with gelatin. The seeds 

 yielded to petroleum ether 20*75 per cent, of a bright green fixed 

 oil. The acrid principle was obtained from the alcoholic extract 

 soluble in water by agitating with petroleum ether. The mois- 

 ture was 10*86 per cent., and the ash 3-90 per cent. (A?ner. 

 Journ. Pharm,,J)BO, 1890.) 



Celsia coromandeliana, VahL, WigJd Ic, t. 1406, is 



an annual plant having the characters of Verbascum, w^hich is 

 common in many parts of India -in the cold weather, usually 

 appearing in fields or in the beds of rivers. It has much the 

 same medicinal properties as Verbascum T/iapsus, and has been 

 brought to notice by Dr. B. M. Chatterjee as a sedative and 

 astringent in diarrhoea, {Phai\ of Ind.y p. 161.) The plant is 



in m 



The natives usually 



administer 



cooling medicine in fever, skin eruptions, dysentery, and such 

 diseases as they consider to be due to heat of blood. 



The plant is herbaceous, pubescent, and viscid ; lower leaves 

 lyrate, floral cordate, stem clasping ; peduncles longer than the 

 calyx ; calycine segments ovate, slightly toothed, or oblong- 



purpl 



bearded 



Kukshima, and 



Kuldhala ; in Bensral it i^ known as 



