154 AUSTRALIAN NATIVE PLANTS. 
1. Alstonine (synonymous with chlorogenine, and probably 
identical with Palm’s a/stonin.) It is a brown, amorphous mass, 
which can be rubbed to a brownish-yellow powder. 
2. Porphyrine, a white powder found in very small quantity. 
3. Porphyrosine, the examination of which is not yet com- 
plete. : 
4. Alstonidine, consisting of colourless, concentrically grouped 
needles. 
Hesse believes that this list by no means completely enumer- 
ates the alkaloids obtainable from this interesting bark. 
New South Wales and Queensland. 
13. Alstonia scholaris, @.2r., (Syn. A. cuneata, Wall.) ; N.O., 
Apocynee, B.F1., iv., 312. 
“Devil Tree” of India. ‘‘ Dita Bark.” 
The powerfully bitter bark of this tree is used by the natives 
of India in bowel complaints. (Zreasury of Botany.) It has 
proved a valuable remedy in chronic diarrhoea and the advanced 
stages of dysentery. It has also been found effectual in restering 
the tone of the stomach and of the system generally in debility 
after fevers and other exhausting diseases. (Pharm. of India.) 
It is officinal in the Pharmacopceia of India as an astringent tonic, 
anthelmintic, and antiperiodic. It is held in the highest repute in 
the Phillippine Islands. For further information see Dymock 
(Materia Medica of Western India). Most writers who speak of 
it at all speak of it in terms of the highest praise. A very full 
account of the various substances which have been extracted from 
this bark will be found in Wa/?’s Dict., 3rd suppt., Part i., page 
688 ef seg. 
Northern Queensland. 
14. Ammannia indica, Zam., (Syn. A. vesicatoria, Roxb.); N.O. 
Lythrariez, B.F1., iii., 296. Not in Muell. Cens.; the Baron, 
therefore, probably considers it introduced. 
The whole plant has a strong aromatic smell. The leaves 
are acrid, and are commonly used by the natives of India to raise 
