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of bromine, 2 of which are removed by digesting it with silver nitrate. The 
compound probably has the formula— 
C u H ia N^O Br,, 2 HBr. 
As both ulexine and sophorine are now proved to bo identical with 
cytisine, this alkaloid has been shown to be present in the various species 
of cytisus ; in ulexeuro-paena, and in sophora lomentosa (By P. C. Plugge, 
Archiv. Pharm. 1894, pp. 444-460, J. Oh. S. 1895 A. I. 159. 
409. Ccesalpinia bonducella, Fleming, H.F.B.I., 
ii. 254, Roxb. 356. 
Syn. : — Guilandina Bonducella, Linn. 
Sans. : — Kuberakshi, pfitikaranga, lat&karanja. 
Vern. : Katkaranj, katkaranga, katkaleja, karanju, karan- 
java, kattkalijS, katkuliji-s&gar-ghota (H.) ; Nata, nata-karanja, 
natu-koranja (B.) ; Bagini (Santal.) ; Zang, kup (Lepcha) ; Kat- 
karonja (Oudli) ; Karaunj (Kumaon) ; Kilgach, katkaranja 
(Ajmere); Gataran (Jabalpur) ; Kirbut (Sind.) ; Kakachia, gajga, 
kachki (Guz.' ; Sagaragota (Cutch) ; Sagurghota, gaja (Bom.) ; 
Sagaragota, gajaga, robedo (Mar.); Gaja, gutchka, gudgega 
(Duk.); Gajkai, gajagakagi, gajega (Kan.); Kazhar-shikkay 
kalichi, kali-balli sbikkay, gecbchakkay (Tam.) ; Gach-chakaza, 
gacbclia ,Tel.) ; Kazhancbikkurn, kinancbik-kuru (Mai.). 
Habitat : — From the Himalayas, throughout India. 
A scandent, prickly shrub. Bark light-brown. Wood hard. 
Leaves over a foot long ; Pinnte 6-8 pair ; 3-8in. long ; stipules 
large, 2-fid ; rachis and its branches armed with recurved pri- 
ckles. Leaflets 6-10 pair on each pinna, opposite 7-1 by §-fi n > 
oblong or elliptic, obtuse, mucronate, membranous, downy 
.beneath, minutely petioluled. Racemes 6-1 2in. long, gradually 
denser towards the top ; pedicels 5 - T s 0 in. long, finely rusty to- 
mentose. Petals |-Jin. long, oblaceolate, yellow, the smallest 
spotted with red. Pod 2-3 by l^-2in., coriaceous, dehiscent, 
thickly beset with sharp wiry prickles, t-mm. long. Seeds 
2-3, j.oin. long, globose or ovoid, shining, lead-coloured, with 
numerous very fine horizontal cracks when dry (Kanjilal). 
Uses : — In an official report, the Madras Committee for the 
proposed revision of the Indian Pharmacopoeia, remark that 
“ the seeds are very useful and cheap and antiperiodic, anti- 
pyretic and tonic ; valuable in all ordinary cases of simple, 
