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given off, and on condensing the vapour, ammonia and a volatile 

 alkaloid were detected in the distillate. The alkaloid was com- 

 bined in the plant with an acid giving a green colour with ferric 

 salts. The air-dried plant afforded 7-3 per cent, of ash. 



Leonotis nepetsefolia, Br. Bot. Reg., t. 281 ; WigUIc, 



/. 867; F^nz.— Ilejur-chei {Beng.)yMitijeY, Matisul {Guz,), 

 Dipnial [Mar.), is a large and conspicuous annual common in the 

 neighbourhood of villages throughout the hotter j>arts of India. 

 It is easily recognised by its globular spinous heads of 

 orange-coloured flowers. Roxburgh gives the following 

 description of the plant: — *'Stem annual, straight, four-sided, 

 simple, fi'om.4to 6 feet high. Leaves opposite," spreading, 

 petioled, cordate, serrate, pointed, downy, from 4 to 8 inches 

 long, and 2 to 3 broad. Floral leaves [hractes verticillonim) 

 lanceolate, depending. Petioles channelled, winged with the 

 decurrent leaf ; verticels globular, 2, 3 or 4, towards the apex of 

 the plant about 5 inches asunder. Involucres many, subulate. 

 Flowers numerous, of a deep rich orange colour. Calyx, 

 10-striated, 8-toothed; corol, under lip very short, 3-toothed, 



at all times of a dirty withered colour.'' 



The ashes of the flower-heads mixed with curds are applied 

 to ringworm and other itchy diseases of the skin. Dr. A. J. 

 Amadeo states that it is called JRascamono in Porto-Rico, and 



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that a decoction of the leaves is used as a tonic, the juice is also 

 expressed and taken with lime juice and rum as a febrifuge* 

 Dr. Amadeo has used it in combination with Phyllanihm 

 JYiruri in interniittcnts. 



Buliun {'rroXiov ), the Poly-Germander (2>wcrm;??P(?Zm;;2^L.), 

 Iskurdiyun {o-Kopdlop), the Water- Germander {T. Scordium), 

 and Kamazariyus (x^m^^^p^^), the Wall-Germander {T. 

 Ghammdr}js)y are treated of in the Materia Medica of the Indian 

 Mahometan physicians, but none of these plants are, as far as 

 our experience goes, obtainable in the bazars, although T, Scor- 



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