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Bromoapoharmine C 8 H,N. J Br, crystallises in long needles, m. p. 229”, and 
bromomethylapoharmine, C 9 H ? N 2 Br, in ncdles, ra. p. 196°. 
On brominating, harmino in presence of sulphuric acid, and suspending the 
product, Fischer's supposed tetrabromide, in hot dilute alcohol, slender 
needles of dibromoharmine monoliydrobromide are obtained; when treated 
with ammonia this gives dibromohannine, C, 3 H 10 ON 2 Br 2 , m. p. 209°. Fischer’s 
compound appears to be the dihydrobromide of this base. 
J. Ch. 8. 1912, A. I. p. 209. 
221 . Dictamnua dlbus., Linn, h.f.b.i., i . 487 . 
Habitat : — Temperate Western Himalaya, from Kashmir to 
Kunawtir, and according to Royle, Jumnotrie in Garwlial. 
A strong- smelling herb ; shrubby below, clothed with 
pustular glands. Stem stout but not woody, branched. Leaves 
lft. and upwards, alternate, unequally pinnate. Leaflets oppo- 
site, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, serrulate, 2-3|in., sessile, dark 
green, base wedge-shaped, nerves slender, petiole very stout, 
angular, margined. Racemes terminal, 4ft. and upwards, 
stout, strict, erect. Flowers white or rose-coloured, 1 Jin. long, 
erect; pedicels l-3in. ; glandular, bracteate at the base and 
braeteolate usually above the middle. Calyx 5-partite ; deci- 
duous. Sepals small, lanceolate. Petals 5, 4 upper in pair, 
ascending, lower declinate ; elliptic-lanceolate, glandular on the 
back. Stamens 10, inserted at the base of a thick annular disk ; 
filaments long, slender, somewhat thickened and very glandular 
below the slender tip ; anthers subglobose. Ovary shortly 
stipitate, deeply 5-lobed, 5-celled. Style hispid, filiform, decli- 
nate. Stigma terminal. Ovules 3-4 in each cell, inserted on 
the ventral suture. Fruit of 5 carpels compressed, broad, 
truncate, long-beaked, elastically 2-valved, 2-3 seeded, hispid 
1 in. long. Endocarp horny, separable. Seeds subglobose ; 
testa thin, black, shining, albumen fleshy ; cotyledons thick, 
radicle short. 
Uses : — Indian writers do not appear to have paid much 
attention to this plant. The bark of the root was once upon 
a time a favorite aromatic bitter. Storck prescribed it for 
most nervous diseases, also for intermittent fever, amenorrhoea, 
hysteria, etc. (Watt). 
