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jn ether or chloroform. The oil may be separated by distillation. It is light- 
yellow, with a pungent odour, and if exposed to the air evolves sulphuretted 
hydrogen. An alcoholic tincture of the drug is precipitated by acetate of 
lead, and a solution in sulphuric acid is fluorescent. (Watt's Commercial 
Products p. p. 584-585.) 
581. Peucedanum graveolens, Benth., h.f.b.i. ; 
ii. 709. 
Syn. : — Anetheuin sowa, Roxb. 272. 
Sans. : — Misreya. 
Vern : — Sowa, Soya (ET.) ; Suva, Shopba, Shepoo, ShewpH 
(Mar., Bomb) Shoyikirai-virai, Sbatakuppi-virai (Tarn.) ; Sompa 
(Tel.) ; Sayi (Dec.) ; Soolpha (B.) 
Habitat (—Throughout tropical and subtropical India. 
A perenBial, glabrous herb, l-3ft. Leaves 2-3-pinnate, ulti- 
mate segments of the leaves £-lin., linear. Pedicels many, 
§im Bracts and bracteoles absent. Petals yellow. Styles small. 
Fruit i by -rain., narrowly winged, plano-convex, 2-3 times as 
broad as thick. Dorsal and intermediate ridges distinct, slen- 
der ; vittre large, solitary in each furrow, 2 on the commissure. 
Parts used : — The leaves and fruit. 
Use : — Mahomedan writers describe it as resolvent, and 
deobstruent, carminative, diuretic and emmenagogue. It is 
used as a condiment and medicine. An infusion of it is given 
as a cordial drink to women after confinement. The leaves 
moistened with oil are used as a stimulating poultice or suppur- 
ative (Dymock). 
The fruit yields on distillation with water 3 to 4 per cent, of an essential 
oil. 
582. P. grande, Clarke ii.f.b.i., ii. 710. 
Vern. : — Baphali (Bomb.) ; Duku (H.) 
Habitat. — Bombay Ghauts. 
A glabrous, annual herb 3ft. Leaves mostly radical, long- 
petioled, amplexical at base, 2 pinnate, leaflets with 3 large, 
rounded lobes, and to be twice as large as the lateral ones. 
Lobes 3, large, rounded, 3-4in., serrate. Bracts oblong or obovate, 
obtuse, prominent, Fruit |in., obovate, obtuse. Rays 20, 
