150 ' ArrENDix. 



ValitJie-pundu. An alcoholic extract of the plant had a strong 

 odour of henbane, and contained a soft resin, a tannin, and an 

 alkaloid, the latter being the active principle. (D.H.) 



Crotalaria retusa, Zinn. Bot. Mag,, t, 2561 ; Ehecde, Hori. MalL ix.y t, 25. 



Greshoff {Med. iiit. SUands Plant, vii., p. 31) has shown that the 

 leaves of this common plant, the Bil-jhanjhan of Bengal, the Ghagri 

 of Bombay, and Potu-galli-gista of Southern India, contain a con- 

 siderable quantity of indican ; and that the seeds contain an alkaloid 

 which is a strong poison, and is probably closely related to the poison- 

 ous alkaloids of Cytisus, Ulex, Spartium, and Lupinus. 



The same base was found in larger quantity in the seeds of 

 C. striata, DC. Dot. Mag., t. 3200 ; Reich. Icon. Exot., t. 232. 



Millettia 



. Greslioff {Med. idt. S'lands Plant., vii., p. 33) has shown that the 

 seeds contain a glucoside similar to, if not identical with, saponin. 

 The plant is employed as a fish poison in the Dutch East Indies ; 

 it is also a native of Martaban, Tenasserira. Malacca, and Penan p- 



Pithecolobiuna bigeminum, Mart. 



According to Greshoff, the bark contains 0*8 per cent, of a non- 

 volatile, amorphous alkaloid, which forms crystalline salts, and 

 separates as a heavy, yellow oil on the addition of alkalies to solu- 

 tions of the latter. With ICO parts of water, it forms a turbid 

 liquid, which on warming assumes the appearance of milk, but 

 becomes clear on the addition of an acid. The solutions have a 

 burning taste, and give the usual alkaloid reactions. It has a strong 

 corrosive action on the skin, and is fatal to fish in a dilution of 

 1 : 400,000. The same compound appears also to occur in P. Saman, 

 Benth. {Meded, nil S^ lands Plants, vii., p. 38.) 



Derris elliptica, Benth. JFiglit, Ic. t. 420. 



The roots of this handsome climbing shrub, according to the 

 Kew Report of 1877, afford a useful insecticide for agricultural 

 purposes, and are also used to kill fish. The Malays are said to use 

 the bark as one of the inLnudionts of their arrow poison. 



