N. O. APOCYNAOK®. 
795 
petroleum spirit, benzol, amyl alcohol, and carbon bisulphide. An analysis 
gave figures corresponding with the formula C„ H 1S N. For this he assigns 
the name “ W rightine." (Pharmacographia Indiea Vol. 11, pp. 895— S96). 
“It appears desirable that the investigation should be extended to the 
bark and seeds." (Ph. J. Feb. 27, 1880) 
756. Taberncemontann dichotomn , Roxb. H.F.B.I., 
in. 645 ; Roxb. 248. 
Vern. : — Pili-karbir, Kener zard (Pb.) ; Caat-aralie (Tam.); 
Odallatn (M.). 
Habitat: — Deccan Peninsula; common in the Western 
Ghats. 
A small tree. Wood yellowish white, moderately hard. Milk 
not acid. Branches dichotomous. Bark pale-grey, smooth. 
Branchtets marked with scars of fallen leaves. Young parts 
covered with a shining resinous coat. Leaves numerous, 4-7 or 
even 10in., elliptic-oblong, or lanceolate-oblong, tapering to 
base, suddenly and shortly acuminate, obtuse, stiff and coriaceous, 
dark-green above, paler beneath, lateral veins numerous, 
horizontal, parallel, depressed above, prominent beneath. Petiole 
J-l^in., stout. Flowers few, white, throat and tube yellow, 
very sweet-scented, on long, stout pedicels ; cymes in axils of 
terminal pair of leaves, lax ; peduncle 2-Cin., stout, glabrous : 
bracts small ovate, fleshy, adpressed. Calyx fleshy at base, 
segments rounded, glabrous: Corolla lj-3in. diam : tube 
f-lin., fleshy, lobes considerably longer oblong, obtuse, falcately 
twisted, often crisped at margin. Anthers acute. Ovary glab- 
rous, style clavate ; ripe carpels about two in., pendulous, 
horizon tally-divaricate or reflexed, broadly ovoid, blunt, flat 
on dorsal, rounded on vertical side, smooth, orange-yellow. 
Seeds |in., finely striate, surrounded by a coat of crimson 
pulp. 
Use : — The seeds are said to be powerfully narcotic and 
poisonous, producing delirium and other symptoms similar to 
those caused by dhatura (Ainslie). 
They are said by Lindley to be purgative. The leaves and 
bark act as purgatives, and are believed to be used in Java as 
substitutes for senna ; the milky sap is also described as 
cathartic (Watt). 
