EUPHOR BIA GEM. 29 1 



only slightly soluble in ether. The addition of sodic carbonate 

 hence caused the precipitation of the greater part of the sodium 

 salt, a small amount only remaining in solution. The 

 subsequent addition of sulphuric acid decomposed the sodium 

 salt in solution, with separation of the free acid in salmon- 

 coloured flocks. As regards the identity of this acid with the 

 one or ginally separated on agitation with petroleum ether, and 

 ether, though the colour of the lead salt w^as different, it might 

 have been due to the presence of foreign matters, and we are 

 inclined to the view that these acid princix3les were similar. 

 The alkaloidal principle from the first ether extract, and that 

 obtained from the alkaline ether, were also probably identical. 



ACALYPHA INDICA, Linn. 



Fig.— WigM 7c., t 877; M/ieede, Hort. MciL x., t 81 

 Habc — Hotter parts of India. 



ACALYPHA PANICULATA, Mi<iuel 



Fig. — RheedCy Hort, MaL x., t. 83, 



Hab, — Deccan Peninsula. The herb. 



Vernacular. --Kn-p^i, Khokali (Ilind.j Mar.), Dadaro (Guz.), 

 Muktajuri, Shwet-basanta (Beng.) yKn-p-paimcnii Tarn.), Kni^pai- 

 chettu, Murkanda-chettu, Puppanti, Harita-mau jari ( TeL ), 

 Chalmari, Kuppi (Can.), Kuppa-mani {MaL) 



History, Uses, &C. — The medicinal properties of these 

 plants are well known in India, but we have been unable to 

 find any notice of them in the standard Sanskrit medical works. 



Ainslie gives Aritamunjayrie as the Sanskrit name, which is 

 evidently meant for Harita-manjari, "a plant with clusters of 

 green flowers,'' a very appropriate name. Rhecde describes two 

 species of Acalypha^ Cupamcni [A. indica), and W61ia-cupameni 

 (A. paniculata); he gives Manjara-sejari as the brahminical 

 name of the first, and states that the juice, made into a lini- 

 ment with oil, is used in rheumatism and venereal pains and 

 eruptions^ and^ with the addition of lime, in skin diseases^ that 



