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there as a foment in contractions of the limbs occasioned by the 

 land winds. In the Concan, the juice of the leaves with that 

 of Maka (Eclipta alba) and Tulasi (Ocimum sanctum) is 

 extracted, and Ajwan seeds are bruised and steeped in it, and 

 given in doses of six massas for rheumatism. The juice in 

 half tola closes with ghi and black pepper is also given, and 

 in splenic enlargement 2 tolas of the juice with 2 tolas of cow's 

 urine is given every morning (Dymock). 



Chemical composition. — The leaves contain principally an essential oil 

 and a resin. The oil possesses the odour of the drug and is neutral and 

 almost colourless. The resin dissolves in alkaline solutions with a reddish- 

 brown colour, softens below 40° C, and gives off aromatic vapours when 

 heated. A tincture of the drug gives a green colour with ferric chloride. 

 The ash of the air-dried leaves amounts to 7-75 per cent. 



The fruits contain an acid resin, an astringent organic acid giving a green 

 colour with ferric salts and a precipitate with gelatine, malic acid, traces of 

 an alkaloid and colouring matter. The fruits previously dried at 100° gave 

 6-8 per cent, of ash (Pharmacog Indica. III. 75). 



960, V. peduncularis, Wall.,Var. Roxburghiana, 

 h.f.b.i., iv. 587 ; Roxb. 482. 



Vern. : — Boruna ; Goda (B) ; Osai (Ass.) ; Bhadu, marak, 

 (Santal) ; Karwru (Magh.) ; Hila-anwal (Cachar; ; Shelangri, 

 (Garo) ; Navaladi (Kan.). 



Habitat: — Behar, at Parasnath, E. Bengal and Khasia 

 Terai. 



A middle-sized or large deciduous tree, 20-40 ft. Bark 

 thick. Wood purplish or reddish grey, hard, close-grained 

 youngest shoots minutely grey pubescent, branchlets, petioles, 

 and leaves glabrous. Leaves 3 foliate. Leaflets 4J by lin., 

 acuminate, lanceolate ; mature glabrate above, densely covered 

 by minute shining yellow resinous glands beneath, midrib 

 sometimes puberulous ; petiolule of the middle leaflet J-§-in. 

 Petiole 2-4 in., slender or sometimes slightly winged. Peduncles 

 3-4in., from the penultimate axils. Panicles often 6-8 by 2in., 

 open. Bracts Agin, linear. Calyx iVm , grey-pubescent sub- 

 truncate, Corolla, Jin., grey-pubescent lower lip longer than 



the tube. Drupe £in. diam., cuboid globose, There are 

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