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of bromine, 2 of which are removed by digesting it with silver nitrate. The 

 compound probably has the formula— 

 C n H 12 N 2 Br 2 , 2 HBr. 

 As both ulexine and sophorine are now proved to be identical with 

 cytisine, this alkaloid has been shown to be present in the various species 

 of cytisus ; in ulexeuro-paens, and in sophora lomentosa (By P. C. Plugge, 

 Archiv. Pharm. 1894, pp. 444-460, J. Oh. S. 1895 A. I, 159. 



409. Ccesalpinia bonducella, Fleming, h.f.b.i., 

 ii. 254, Roxb. 356. 



Syn. : — Guilandina Bonducella, Linn. 



Sans. : — Kuberakshi, putikaranga, latakaranja. 



Vern. : Katkaranj, katkaranga, katkaleja, karanju, karan- 

 java, katkalija, katkuliji-sagar-ghota (H.) ; Nata, natfi-karanja, 

 natu-koranja (B.) ; Bagini (Santal.) ; Zang, kup (Lepcha) ; Kat- 

 karonja (Oadb) ; Karaunj (Kumaon) ; Kilgach, katkaranja 

 (Ajmere); Gataran (Jabalpur) ; Kirbut (Sind.) ; Kakacbia, gajga, 

 kacbki (Guz. • ; Sagaragota (Cutch) ; Sagurgbota, gaja (Bom.) ; 

 Sagaragota, gaj'aga, robedo (Mar.); Gaja, gutcbka, gudgega 

 (Duk.) ; Gajkai, gajagakagi, gajega (Kan.); Kazbar-shikkay 

 kalicbi, kali-balli sbikkay, gecbchakkay (Tam.) ; Gacb-cbakaza, 

 gacbclia .Tel.) ; Kazbancbikkurn, kinancbik-kuru (Mai.). 



Habitat : — From the Himalayas, throughout India. 



A scandent, prickly shrub. Bark light-brown. Wood hard. 

 Leaves over a foot long ; Pinnae 6-8 pair ; 3-8in. long ; stipules 

 large, 2— fid ; rachis and its branches armed with recurved pri- 

 ckles. Leaflets 6-10 pair on each pinna, opposite 7-1 by §-fin., 

 oblong or elliptic, obtuse, mucronate, membranous, downy 

 beneath, minutely petioluled. Racemes 6-1 2in. long, gradually 

 denser towards the top ; pedicels l~f in. long, finely rusty to- 

 mentose. Petals ^-gin. long, oblaceolate, yellow, the smallest 

 spotted with red. Pod 2-3 by lj-2in., coriaceous, dehiscent, 

 thickly beset with sharp wiry prickles, J-i 3 oin. long. Seeds 

 2-3, jjjim long, globose or ovoid, shining, lead-coloured, with 

 numerous very fine horizontal cracks when dry (Kanjilal). 



Uses : — In an official report, the Madras Committee for the 

 proposed revision of the Indian Pharmacopoeia, remark that 

 " the seeds are very useful and cheap and antiperiodic, anti- 

 pyretic and tonic ; valuable in all ordinary cases of simple, 



