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obtained with iron salts, bat an aqueous solution of the alcoholic extract 

 yielded a slight precipitate with gelatin. The seeds yielded to petroleum 

 ether 20*75 per cent, of a bright green fixed oil. The acrid principle was 

 obtained from the alcoholic extract soluble in water by agitating with 

 petroleum ether. The moisture was 10*86 per cent., and the ash 3*90 per cent, 

 (Amer. Joum, Pharm., Dec. 1890). (Pharmacographia Indica, III. 3-4). 



882. Gelsia corornandeliana, Vahl. h.f.b.l, IV. 

 251 ; Roxb. 491. 



Sans. : — Kulahala. 



Vern: — Kukshima (B.) ; Kutki (M.) ; Gaidar tainbaku (H.); 

 Kolhal (Boin.). 



Habitat : — Throughout India, from the Punjab to Ceylon. 

 An annual herb, with alternate leaves. Stems 2-3ft., stout, 

 hairy, branched at summit. Radical leaves on long petioles, 

 compound or pinnatisect, with several small leaflets or segments 

 at base and large oblong, oval, acute terminal one. Cauline leaves 

 alternate, sessile, oblong-ovate, passing into bracts, all coarsely 

 dentate, hairy on both sides. Flowers yellow, moderate sized, 

 on slender, glandular, pubescent pedicels, in long erect racemes 

 l-2ft., terminating stem and branches ; bracts leafy. Calyx- 

 segments oblong, acute, glandular-pubescent. Corolla |in. diam., 

 lobes rounded. Filaments hairy. Capsule J-Jin. diam., subglo- 

 bose, glabrous. Seeds oblong, truncate, verrucose. 



Uses : — The inspissated juice of the leaves prescribed in 

 several cases of acute and chronic dysentery with manifest 

 advantage. Its action appears to be that of a sedative and 

 astrigent (Ph. Ind.). 



"Juice of the whole plant squeezed out by pounding it, is 

 used in half chittak doses, morning and evening, in cases of 

 syphilitic eruptions. The juice of the leaves, mixed with 

 mustard oil, in equal proportions, is applied as an external 

 application for relieving the burning sensations of the hands 

 and feet" (Surg. Mukerji, in Watt's Dictionary^. 



" If a little of the root is chewed in fever, or when there 

 is urgent thirst, a cooling sensation will occur and thirst be 

 appeased " (Surg. Wilson, in Watt's Dictionary.. 



"Expressed juice of the leaves, mixed with sugar and water, 

 used as a drink in bleeding piles" [Dr. Shircore). 



