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94. LABIA'l\K 



stalks, flowers downward, in closed bottles and exposing them for 

 some time in the sun's rays ; a mixture of water and essential 

 oil collects at the bottom, which is used as a heemostatic and 

 for cleansing wounds. (J", C. Soicer,) 



Description. — The purple flowers occur in short-stalked 

 spikes and are situated in the axils of downy, heart-shaped 

 bracts. The upper bracts, which are abortive, form a purple 

 tuft at the top of the spike. The drug has a camphoraceous 

 odour and a hot bitter taste. The odour of the oil, which is of 

 a reddish-yellow colour, recalls that of oil of rosemary. 



Chemical composition. — The specific gravity of Spanish oil 

 of L. Slcechas is 0-942 at 15^ C. It boils between 180^ and 

 245^, {J. C, Sawer, Chem. and J)rHrjgisf, l8dl,^o. 5Q7.) 



Commerce. — The drug is largely imported from Europe- 

 Value, Rs. 8 per maund of 37^ lbs. 



JADEH. 



The »*^AA.of the Arabian pliysicians is generally considered to 

 be the Fidiyim (7rr)Xtoj')of the Greeks; by some supposed to be the 

 l^oley-Germander {Tciicrium rolitim, Linn.) ; it is described as 

 doobstruent, diuretic, anthelmintic, and tonic. {Diose. iii., 11"^> 

 Plin.^ 21 , 60j 84.) Dumolin, howxver, maintains the nzoKiov of the 

 Greeks and the Folium of Pliny to be Sanlolina cJiamccci/p(in><s\f^y 

 the '^Lavender Cotton'' of our gardens. Ibn Sina describes 

 Jadch as ^^-" cr^ry, **a kind of wormseed." Persinn writers 

 on Materia Mcdica give Gul-i-urla and Amherhed as it^ 



Bynonyms 



1 



Dr. Jayakar, Civil Surgeon at Muscat, and a distinguisher 

 Arabic scholar, forwarded to one of us in 1885 a plant growing 



near 



ppeci 



Bandar Abbas. Both of Dr. Jayakar's specimens are wmxly, 



labiate plants, with linear leaves and terminal crowded spikes of 

 flovvrrs, both are densely covered with a cotton-like down, more 

 esperially the Persian specimen. The two plantti are evidently 









