N. 0. L1LIACE.E. 





Chem. comp.— The powdered roots were found to contain— 





Water extract 



... 77*55 



Cellulose 



... 1285 



Moisture 



... 6*00 



Ash 



... 3-60 





100-00 



1289 



The water extract was a thick mucilaginous liquid which threw out white 

 flocks of albuminous matter when boiled, and was not affected by Fehling's 

 solution. The portion of the root insoluble in water consisted of almost pure 

 cellulose. (Pharmacogr. Ind. III. 485.) 



1276. A. gonoelados, Baker, h.f.b.i., vi., 318. 



Vern. : — Satamuli (B.) ; Hatmuli (Assam) ; Tilora (Sind) 

 Shatavari (Bomb, and Guz.) ; Satavari-mul, zatar (Mar.) 

 Kilavari, tannir-vittan-kizhangu, tanni-muttan-kalangu (Tarn.) 

 challagaddalu, pilli-pichara (Tel.) ; Shafcavari-kizhanna, shataval 

 (Mala) ; Majjige-gadde (Kan.) ; Shaqaqul or shakakul (Arab., 

 Pers., and Hin.). This is erroneously called Safed musli in 

 some parts of India. 



Habitat : — Upper India, Concan and the Deccan. 



An excessively branched, subscandent, armed under-shrub ; 

 stem terete ; branches curved, green, triquetrous. Spines short. 

 Cladodes 2-6-nate, 1-1 fin. long, by iVn. broad, flat, straight or 

 falcate, subcostate, narrowed to the acuminate base and tip ; ra- 

 cemes l-3in., often fascicled, sometimes connate ; pedicels ^j-Ain. 

 jointed much below the middle, bracts as long as the lower joint 

 of the pedicels, cymbiform ; perianth iVtoin. across; segments 

 spreading, outer linear-oblong, inner more spathulate : anthers 

 much shorter than the filaments. Berry globose, fin. diam., or 

 didymous and twice as broad. Flowers white. 



Uses:— The root is considered nourshing and aphrodisiac. 

 Boiled with oil, it is applied to cutaneous diseases. It is given 

 in gonorrhoea in 15 grains per dose. The root is used to adulter- 

 ate or as substitute for Aconitum heterophyllum. (Watt.) 



1277, Polygonatum multiflorum, AIL, h.f.b.i., 

 vi,, 319. 



Habitat : — Western Temperate Himalaya, from Kashmir to 

 Kumaon. 

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