N. 0. LINENS. 
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tryosine, an insolublo basic salt, 2Pb(C s ,H 10 0 3 N)„5Pb(OH) 1 ' This separates 
in a granular state and is readily filtered and washed. J. Ch. I. for Feb , 15, 
1911 p. 148. 
"My experience has been that Bombay oils usually give the highest 
iodine value, but that these vary from year to year with the crop and season.’’ 
Oil. 
Iodine 
value. 
Sp- gr. 
at 15 s . 
Hexabro- 
midcs. 
1 2 
M. pt. 
Calcutta oil 
185 
0-9322 
39-1 39-3 
0 
1 
CT 
Q 
Or. Harry Ingle in the J. Ch. I. for March 31, 1911 p. 344. 
200 . Reinwardtia trigyna, Planch, H.F.B.I., 
i. 112. 
Syn. : — Linum trigynum, Roxb. 277. 
Vern. : — Karkun, kuar, gud batal, basant, bal-basant, gul- 
ashruf (Pb.) Abai (Deccan). 
Habitat : — Hilly parts of India, Simla. From the Panjab 
to Sikkim. Beliar, Assam, Chittagong. Southward from the 
Bombay Ghats to the Nilgiri Hills. Very common in the Dun, 
and the Hills around. 
A tufted glabrous shrub, 2-3ft. high, with erect and 
prostrate rooting ; terete, rather stout, soft branches ; leaves 
entire, ovate-lanceolate, 2-4in., narrowed into a slender stalk ; 
tip obtuse or acute, minutely mucronate, lower surface pale. 
Flowers about lin. dia., axillary, solitary or in small clusters, 
sometimes combined in a terminal corymb. Sepals 5, lan- 
ceolate, acute, green. Petals primrose-yello.w, much longer 
than the calyx, obovate. Stamens usually in 2 sets, 3 long, 
2 short. Ovary 5-eelled. Styles usually 3, sometimes 4-7, 
longer or shorter than the stamens, more or less united, rarely 
free. Capsule size of a pea; papery (Kanjilal), globose Jin. 
diam. ; separating into as many valves as there are styles. 
See Darwin’s Forms of Flowers, Chap. VII. 
Use : — Said to be used as a medicine lor cattle (Dr. 
Stewart). 
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