90 INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS, 



thiosulphate into phenylethylthioearbamide and sodium sulphate. When 

 an attempt was made to prepare an additive compound of the silver salt with 

 ammonia, it was found that some of the silver was replaced at the same time 

 by ammonium. It is noteworthy that the seeds do not contain an appreciable 

 quantity of any enzyme capable of hydrolysing the glucoside. J. Ch. S. 1900, 

 A I. 49. 



73. Gardamine pratensis, Linn, h.f.b.l, i. 138, 



Habitat:— Hassora in western Tibet. 



A perennial glabrous herb. Stem 1 ft. Rootstock some- 

 times bearing small fleshy tubers. Leaves pinnate; leaflets 

 of the radical leaves orbicular or ovate, terminal longer: those 

 of the cauline leaves linear-oblong entire, in equi-distant pairs, 

 angled, shortly petioled. Flowers large white or lilac, corym- 

 bose when young. Petals spreading three times as long as 

 sepals. Pods Lin., linear, erect. Style short. 



Use : — Used as a salad for the same purpose as Nasturtium 

 officinale. 



74. Farsetia Jacquemontii, H.f. and T, 



H.F.B.L, I. 140. 



Vern : — Mnlei, farid buti, lathia, farid muli (Pb. ) 

 Habitat : — Sandy places in the Punjab and Sindh. 



An erect, rather rigid, hoary perennial herb, covered 

 with closely adpressed hairs attached at their middle. Steins 

 12-18 in., branches virgate. Leaves ^-1 in., linear-oblong 

 or linear. Flowers large ; buds elliptic ; Sepals acute, strigose ; 

 Petals half as long as the sepals. Stigma short, suberect. 

 Pods narrow linear or linear-oblong, 1^-2 by |-|- in., com- 

 pressed ; valves flat, nerveless or faintly one-nerved ; seeds 

 2-seriate. 



75. F. Hamiltonii, Boyle, h.f.b.l, i. 140. 



Habitat : — Upper Gangetic plain and the Punjab, from 

 Agra westwards. 



A rigid, hoary undershrub, with forked virgate branches 

 in the Salt Range of the Punjab. Leaves linear, Flowers 



