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The chips arc then put into earthen pots, in the proportion of 8 seers of 
chips to 5 seers of water, the pots being roughly 1' high 7" diameter. 
These pots are then placed in two parallel rows on the top of a long fur- 
nace, the pots being sealed with clay into the small holes left on tho top of 
tho furnace for their reception, thus closing all cracks to tho draught and 
distributing the heat from the (Ire evenly throughout the flume of the furnaco. 
The boiling goes on for about six hours. As water evaporates fresh water 
is poured in so as to keep tho chips always well eovored. At tho end of this 
period the contents of pot 2 are poured into the practically empty pot 1, tho 
contonts of pot 3 into pot 2 and so on. This is not done quickly but leisurely 
and water added to rinse the chips. "Where the iron pan is used, tho extract 
is poured into that instead of into pot 1. 
In this way tho liquid contents of all the pots evontually finds its way to 
pot I on each row, or into tho iron pan where it is still further evaporated 
until sufficiently concentrated. It is not known how long this takes, but 
apparently there is no hurry about it, and it may stand for some days or for 
a few hours. When ready it is of the consistency of a thick treacle, and is 
poured out into small receptacles made of tho leaves of bclangor (Bauhinia 
Vahlii) where it cools and thickens ; eventually being packed into baskets 
for transport to Amritsar. 
The larger part of the 1 resaunt ’ extract appears to be exported from 
Amritsar to Multan, whence it probably extends to Sindh and other desert 
tracts. Its use is largely in mixing with drinking water, What its effect on 
tho water is, is not known to the writer at present, but its presence probably 
neutralises a salt, as it is said to make the water “ cooler."’ 
51. B. asintica, Roxb. h.f.b.i., i. 110. Roxb. 300. 
Habitat-. — Dry valleys of the Himalaya, from Bhutan to 
Garhwal, Behar, on Parasnath, Lower hills Dehra. 
7mt. : — Kilmora (Kumaon) ; Kingora (Dehra Dun and 
Garhwal); M&te-Kissi ; Chitra (Nepal), Kishornoi (Jaunsar). 
Uses : — The medicinal uses of this are the same as those 
of B. aristata. 
An erect thorny shrub, 3-6 ft. Bark soft, pale, light brown, 
yellow in bast layers, corky outside, and deeply cleft vertically. 
Wood yellow, hard Easily recognized by its net-veined leaves. 
The arrested leaf-bearing shoots often on the top of stout woody 
tuberculate branchlets of previous years. Leaves 1-3 in., rarely 
acute, rigidly coriaceous, white beneath, obovate, sometimes 
nearly orbicular, nerves and veins strongly reticulate, laciniose 
