312 INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 



subject, Mr. Jacobs, states that, when prepared in March or 

 April while the sap is ascending, unpleasant effects have been 

 observed, such as stupor, dilatation of the pupil, &c, which 

 symptoms, however, pass off without perceptible injury to the 

 system. There appears little doubt that, if given in large, doses, 

 the bark, leaves, and fruits are all toxic, producing narcotism 

 followed by death. Dr. Burton Brown (Punjab Poisons) records 

 a case in which a European girl ate the berries, became insen- 

 sible and died. Descourtilz says that six to eight seeds cause 

 nausea, spasm and choleraic symptoms, sometimes followed by 

 death" (Watt). 



Margosa Oil. 



This oil is obtained from the seeds of Melia uzedarach. 



It has a Sp. Gr. of 0*9023 ; at 04740° ; Saponification nnmber, 196*9 ; iodine 

 number, 52. The oil is solid at the ordinary temperature. 



264. M. dubia, Gav, h. f. b. l, i. 545. 



8yn. : — M. Superba, Roxb ; M. Robusta, Roxb. 369. 



Vern. : — Nimbara, limbada (Bomb.) 



The fruit, kala khajur, kuaru khajur (Bomb.) ; Dingkur- 

 long (Assam) ; Lapshi (Nepal) ; Kadu khajur (Guz.) ; Mallay 

 vembu (Tain.) ; Bevu, letta-beru, kad-bevu, Karibevin, ara-bevu 

 (Kan. 



Habitat : — Wild and cultivated in the Eastern and West- 

 ern Peninsulas. 



A very large handsome tree, deciduous, very fast-growing. 

 Bark smooth, dark brown or dark purplish brown, thin. 

 Wood soft, sapwood grey, heartwood reddish white. l r oung 

 parts stellate-mealy. Leaves crowded, very large, l-3ft. or 

 more, bi-or somewhat — tripinnate, pinnae 3-6 pair, distant, 

 opposite or nearly so ; leaflets 2-5 pair, in each pinna and a 

 terminal one, stalked, oval or ovate, slightly oblique at base, 

 acuminate, coarsely shallowly crenate, the lowest often again 

 pinnate, glabrous ; rachis cylindric, glabrous, dilated at base. 

 Corymbose panicles numerous, 4-8in. long. Peduncle axillary, 

 stellate-scurfy. Calyx-segments lanceolate, acute, stellate-mealy. 

 Petals white, linear-oblong, obtuse reflexed, stellate-mealy 



