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removed by means of ether. After boiling the clear aqueous solution, ex- 
cess of hydrochloric acid was added ; and on cooling, it deposited long, orange- 
colored needles, which were collected and washed with dilute HC1. To 
purify this product, it was dissolved in boiling dilute alkali, and the solution 
digested with animal charcoal, filtered, treated with HC1, and allowed to cool ; 
the yellow needles which separated were collected, washed with water, and 
allowed to dry at tho ordinary temperature. The product weighed 0’36 grams. 
This product was identical with Berbcrine. 
The inner bark also contains a trace of Berberine. It contains also 
some quantity of a sticky, resinous product, which is insoluble in water or 
diluto acids, but readily soluble in ether, and appeared to be identical with 
the similar substance present in the yellow powder. 
The central woody portion of tho root yielded no Berberine. 
-J. Ch. 8. 1895 T 413. 
229 . 8 kimmia laureola, Hook. /., h.f.b.i., i. 499 . 
Syn. : — Limonia Laureola, Wall. 
Vern. : — Ner ; barru ; slialangli (Pb.) ; cbumloni (Nepal) ; 
Limburnyok (Lepclia). 
Habitat : — Throughout the temperate Himalaya, from 
Murree to Miehmi and Khasia Mouutains. In Dun Hills, a 
common undershrub. 
An extremely aromatic, gregarious, evergreen shrub, glabrous 
wholly, often a small tree in Sikkim. Branched from the base. 
Branches and foliage very bright green, 3-5ft. high. Wood 
close-grained, white, soft, with distinct white concentric white 
lines. Wood has an aromatic scent when fresh cut. Bark thin, 
bluish grey. Leaves alternate, simple, quite entire, midrib 
prominent. Exceedingly variable in size, oblong-linear, elliptic- 
lanceolate, or obovate-obtuse, acute or cordate-acuminate, 3-7in. 
long, softly coriaceous, nerves indistinct ; petiole short, stout. 
Panicles terminal, short, dense-flowered, branched. Females 
smaller. Bracts and 2 bracteoles deciduous. Flowers 5-merous, 
about |in. diam., yellowish white, inodorous, shortly pedi- 
celled. Sepals small. Petals oblong or obtuse ; filaments 
stout, subulate. Ovary ovoid, minute, conic, 4-cleft in male 
flowers ; style 1. 
Fruit J-fim long, ellipsoid, red, fleshy. Seeds 1-3. Em- 
biyo green. Kanjilal says the odour of the musk-deer is 
propularly supposed to be derived from it. 
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