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bracts thin, ovate acuminate, caducous, pedicels spreading, 
i-fin. Sepals obtuse, glabrous, H in - Petals |in., yellow, 
with reddish veins. Pod 4-5 by ^ i n . , rather recurved, glabrous 
sub compressed, distinctly torulose. Seeds 15-30. 
Parts used : — The leaves, seeds and roots. 
Uses Sanskrit authors regard it as possessing much the 
same medicinal properties as C. Sophera. Mahomedan writers 
describe it as alexipharmic useful in the expulsion of corrupt 
humors and to relieve cough (Dymock). 
In the Goncan, 2 to 6 gunjas of the seeds are pounded and 
heated with a tola of woman’s or cow’s milk, which is strained 
and given once a day as a cure for the convulsions of children, 
or 6 mash a doses may be given to the mother or wet-nurse. In 
France and in the West Indies, the seeds are employed as a 
febrifuge. An infusion of the root is considered by the Amer- 
ican Indians to be an antidote against various poisons (uy- 
mock). The seeds and leaves are used externally in cutaneous 
diseases (T. N. Mukerji). 
In the West Indies, the root is considered diuretic and the 
leaves taken internally and applied externally are given in 
cases of itch and other cutaneous diseases. The root is said by 
Martius to be beneficial in obstructions of the stomach and in 
incipient dropsy (Lindley). Among the country people of 
Porto Rico, a decoction of the leaves, roots and flowers is highly 
prized in hysteria. 1 have tried its effects in some cases and 
found it relieve the spasm. It is useful for expelling wind 
accumulated in the intestines of dyspeptic, nervous women. It 
is also used as a tonic and febrifuge (Dr. Amader in Ph. J., 
28-4-88). 
The whole plant is purgative. Dose of leaves about 90 
grains. 
Professor Clonet has analysed the seeds. The following abstract of his 
views and results taken from the Year-Book of Pharmacy , 1876, p. 179, will be 
found instructive : — 
“Fatty matters (olein and mnrgarin), 4'9; tannic acid, 0‘9; sugar, 21 ; gum, 
28'8; starch, 2’0 ; cellulose, 34 0 ; water, 7'0 ; calcium sulphate and phosphate, 
crysophanic acid, 0'9 ; malic acid, sodium chloride, magnesium sulphate, iron, 
silica, together, 6’4 ; and achrosine, 13 58 parts in 100. The latter substance 
