1188 INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 



(2) A sample of the fresh fruit was gathered in Calcutta. 

 As the sample was very web, it was partially dried for analysis. It then 

 contained : 



Water ... ... ... ... 12'9 



Albuminoids* ... ... ... ... 81 



Oil ... ... ... ... 61 



Carbohydrates | ... ... ... ... 35*5 



Fibre ... ... ... ... 31*0 



Ashf ... ... ... ... 6-4 



The alcoholic extract contains a glucoside, a trace of acid, but no appreci- 

 able quantities of jtannin or alkaloid. The colouring matter is precipitated 

 from its deep purple alkaline solution as a reddish brown deposit which dries 

 to an almost black powder. 



1177. F. Benjamina, Linn., h.f.b.i., v. 508. 



Syn. : — F. comosa, Roxb. 644 



Vern. :— Sunonijar (Santal); Juripakri Assam, Chittagong 

 (Nepal); Kunhip (Lepcha); Pimpri (Bomb.); Jili (Chutia Nagpur); 

 Piitra-janvi (Tel.) 



Habitat : — Base of the Eastern Himalaya, Assam, and the 

 Deccan Peninsula. 



A very large, evergreen tree, with drooping branches. Wood 

 soft, light-brown, in alternate layers of light-brown, soft tissue 

 and darker (light on a vertical section) hard tissue, the breadth 

 of the soft layers about half that of the hard ones. Pores moder- 

 ate-sized to large, very scanty, evenly distributed. Medullary 

 rays fine to moderately broad, rather numerous, uniform. 

 A fine, avenue tree, and excellent for shade. (Gamble.) The 

 tree is 50-60ft. in height ; it has 12- 20ft., clear stem ; and 

 6-8ft. girth. ;(Kurz.) 



An evergreen tree, with a dense, divaricate crown and 

 pendulous branches, all parts glabrous ; stipules small, lanceo- 

 late, glabrous ; leaves ovate to elliptically ovate on a slender 

 petiole, 5-8in. long, obtuse at the base, rather long and bluish, 



* Containing nitrogen ... ... ... 131 per cent. 



| Ditto colouring matter ... ... 7*7 



Ditto silica (Si 2 >. ... ... 0*35 



Ditto phosphoric acid (P 2 5 ) ... 0'53 



*{ 



