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INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 
long; secondary nerves numerous, slender, closely parallel. 
Flowers whitish, scented, sessile, in compound dichotomous- 
cymes on the previous year’s wood, rarely axillary. Calyx-lube 
turbinate, |-jin. long, base short, cylindrical, limb almost 
truncate, segments very short. Petals united in a calyptra. 
Stamens as long as the Calyx-tube. Fruit |-l^in. long, pink 
while ripening, beautifully purple almost to black when fully 
ripe, luscious, juicy, astringent to taste, but very agreeable 
when eaten quite ripe. 
Parts used : — The bark, leaves, fruits and seeds. 
Use : — The bark is astring ent, and is used alone or in com- 
bination with other medicines of its class, in the preparation 
of astringent decoctions, gargles and washes. The fresh juice 
of the bark is given with goat’s milk in the diarrhoea of children. 
The expressed juice of the leaves is used alone or in combin- 
ation with other astringents in dysentery (Dutt). 
The author of the Makhzan says that the fruit is useful as- 
tringent in bilious diarrhoea, and makes a good gargle for sore 
throat or lotion for ringworm of the head. The root and . seeds 
are useful astringents, also the leaves. He tells us that a kind 
of wine is made from the fruit, and that the juice of the leaves 
dissolves iron filings, or, as he expresses it, reduces them to so 
light a condition that they float upon the surface of the liquid 
as a scum. This, when collected and washed, he recommends 
as a tonic and astringent (Dymock). 
A vinegar, prepared from the juice of .the ripe fruit, is 
an agreeable stomachic and carminative ; it is also used as a 
diuretic. 
Recently the seeds have been used in diabetes. 
The seeds of Eugenia Jambolana , Lam, contain neither alkaloid nor enezyme. 
The aloholie extract when distilled in steam yielded a small amonnt of a 
pale yellow oil, with the following characteristics : sp gr. 0° 9258 at 20°/2G°O., 
al)=2°51' in a 50m. tube. The portion of the alcoholic extract insoluble 
in water contained the following substances : a mixture of fatty acids, a 
small amount of a solid, melting at 78°-80°O. and a new phenolic substance, 
styled Jambulol. This can be crystallised from pyridine, and forms brown 
needles containing solvent of crystallisation. It has the composition, C 16 
H s 0 9 , The penta acetyl derivative forms pale-brown leaflets melting at 
