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360 . Mundulea suberosa, Benth. h.f.b.i., ii. 101 . 
Syn. : — Robinia suberosa and R. Senuoides, Roxb. 568. 
Habitat Hill-valleys of the Western Peninsula and Ceylon. 
A stout, erect shrub, with thick corky bark. Branches, rachises, 
pedicels and leaves beneath densely sericeous. Leaves odd- 
pinnate. Leaflets 6-10-jugate, oblong, lanceolate, coriaceous, 
l|-2irj- long. Flowers in close, terminal racemes. Pedicels 
2-3 times theeampanulate Calyx. Corolla 3/4-1 in. long, reddish, 
thinly silvery. Pod 3-4in. long, densely sericeous, 6-8 seeded, 
both sutures thickened, so as to form prominent borders. 
Uses : — The seeds are used in Southern and Western India 
as a fish poison. They stupefy the fish, which are then readily 
taken by the hand. 
The seeds and bark contain a greenish yellow resin, soluble 
in carbon bisulphide, benzol, chloroform, amylic alcohol, ether, 
hot alcohol, and partly in caustic alkalis, with a bright yellow 
colour. 
The leaves contain, besides the resin, an organic acid and 
9 per cent of ash [Pharmacographia Indica, Vol. I., p. 417]. 
361 . Tephrosia purpurea , Pers. h.f.b.i., ii. 112 . 
Syn. : — Galega purpurea, Roxb. 587. 
Sans. : — Sarapunkha. 
Vern . : — Sarphunka (H.) ; Ban-nil (Beng.) ; Bansa (Pb.) ; 
Jangli-kulthi (Bomb.) ; Kolluk-k&y-velai (Tam.) ; Vempali (Tel.) 
Jhila (Guz.) ; Hun, nali, jangli-kulthi (Dec.) ; Kozhin-nila (Mai.). 
Habitat : — From the Himalayas throughout India. 
A copiously-branched, sub-erect, herbacous perennial. Stem 
glabrescent or finely downy, l-2ft high, slender, terete. Leaves 
odd-pinnhte, short-petioled, 3-6in- long. Stipules linear, subulate, 
ascending or reflexed; leaflets 13-21, narrow, oblanceolate, obtuse, 
green, glabrescent ‘above, glaucous, obscurely silky below. 
Racemes copious, all leaf-opposed, 3-6in. long, lax ; lower flowers 
fascicled; pedicels l/8-l/4in., bracts minute. Calyx £-£in., closely 
silky. Calyx teeth narrow, cuspidate, as long as the tube. Corolla 
1/4-1/2 in., red, thinly silky. Pod 1^-2 by 1/6 in., broad glabres- 
