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hentriacontane, C sl H fl4 m. pt. 67°-68°C., and a crystalline substance, C 20 H 34 O, 

 in. pt. 130°-133 C C., [a] 23° D =—37 7% allied to the cholesterols, and agreeing in 

 composition with quebrachol, cupreol, and cinchol ; (4) Two bitter principles. 

 The bitter principles are found in the aqueous layer of the residue from the 

 steam-distillation of the combined alcoholic and petroleum extracts.; the 

 solution also contains a quantity of reducing sugar, and a very small amount 

 of a substance which gives a deep green colour with ferric chloride. One of 

 the bitter principles (a) is completely extracted by chloroform from the 

 aqueous solution and can subsequently be obtained from ether, in which it is 

 sparingly soluble, as a light-coloured amorphous powder. The other bitter 

 principle (b) could only be obtained as a brown extract. The authors could 

 obtain no evidence of the presence of quassin as stated by Heckel and 

 Schlagdenhauffen, nor of the glucosidal bitter principle, named " kosamiue" 

 by Bertrand.—J. S. of C. I. September 15, 1903, page 1013. 



The bark of Brucea Sumatrana yielded an amorphous, bitter principle, 

 volatile acids ^formic, acetic, an.l butyric), proteins, and an acid which was 

 probably behenic acid— (Ph. J. 1907 Vol. 79 pp. 126-130). 



250.- — Balanites Roxburghii, Planch. H. F. B. I., 

 i. 522. 



Syn. :— Ximenia iEgyptica, B. iEgyptica, Wall. 



Sans : — Ingudi-Vrikshaka. 



Ver : — Hingan, ingua, hingol, liingota (H.) ; Egorea, hinger 

 (Guz.) ; Hingon (B.) ; Hinganbet, hingan (Dec) ; Garah, (Goncli) ; 

 Nanjunda (Tam.) ; Mancliuta (Mai.) ; Gari ; gara-chethi, ringri 

 (Tel). Hingoriyun (Porebunder and Guz.) 



Habitat: — Drier parts of India, from Cawnpore to Sikkim, 

 Behar, Guzerat, Khandeish and the Deccan. Mhasvad Road, 

 Satara district. Burmah. 



A scraggy shrub ; in favourable situations, a small tree, 

 30ft. high, with glabrous puberulous branches, ending in very 

 strong, sharp, ascending spines. Wood yellowish white, moder- 

 ately hard. Bark yellow or cinereous. The roots spread far 

 and throw up root-suckers at a considerable distance from 

 the trunk. Leaves of two elliptic or obovate puberulous, entire 

 coriaceous leaflets. Cymes 4-10-flowered. Flowers white or 

 green, fragrant. Sepals and petals ovate, velvety-pubescent, 

 more than an inch long. Drupes ovoid, lj-2in. long, 5-grooved ; 

 pulp bitter, with an offensive greasy smell. Stone hard, 

 tubercled. 



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