N. 0. TILIAOEiE. 
223 
slender ; stipules subulate. Cymes leaf-opposed. Peduncles 
short, stout ; bracts lanceolate, subulate ; pedicels very short. 
Sepals tain, long, linear-oblong, apiculate. Petals longer 
than the sepals ; oblong-ovate. Capsules f-f in. long, cylindric, 
elongate, beaked, glabrous, often curved upwards, generally 
straight, 4-valved. 
Part used : — The whole plant. 
Uses . — The plant is rubbed down and given as a cooling 
medicine. Leaves are emollient. The -plant has tonic proper- 
ties as a whole. 
Infusion used as a fever drink (Stewart.) 
Very mucilaginous, mucilage demulcent, and used in 
Sindh for gonorrhoea (Murray). A decoction of seeds with milk 
and sugar as a tonic. Dose of powdered plant j — 1 tola. 
The seeds of Oorchorus fascicularis are mucilaginous, sweet, non-toxic, 
and edible ; those of 0. Olitorius, are purgative ; those of 0. Capsularis 
0. bengalensis, 0. acutangulus, C. argutue and C. trilocitlaris contain fat; and 
the last three, besides a green fluorescent body, a toxic glucoside, the cor- 
chorlm of Tunno and; W. Priboes. Corohorin is intensely bitter, readily 
solublo in water and in alcohol, but insoluble in ether, chloroform, and 
henzene, so that it cannot be isolated by shaking out with the last-named 
liquids. It is very slightly precipatated by neutral lead acetate, but is 
thrown down by ammonical lead acetate. It gives a bluish green colour with 
strong sulphuric acid. It is removed from strong aqueous solutions by means 
of ammonium sulphate. Corchorin is hydrolysed by boiling with dilute 
mineral acids, forming a sugar and a decomposition product, which is in- 
soluble in neutral and acid aqueous solvents but soluble in alcohol. It is 
very poisonous, being allied to the digitalis glucosides. 
(J. Ch-I. 80. 4. 1007 pp. 480-181). 
N. 0. LINEiE. 
199. Linum usitatissimum, Linn, h.f.b.i., 
i. 410. Roxb. 277. 
Sorts. : — Atasi, MasrinS. 
Vern. : — Alsi, tisi (H.) ; Tisi masin& (B.) ; Alsi-virai (Tam) 
Atasi (Tel.) ; Pesu (Uriya) ; Alasi (Porebundar and Gujrat) : 
Javas ; (Marathi) Alashi. 
Habitat : — Cultivated throughout India, Ceylon, Western 
Himalayas. 
