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obtained with iron salts, but an aqueous solution of the alcoholic extract 
yielded a slight precipitate with gelatin. The seeds yielded to petroleum 
ether 20-75 per cent, of a bright green fixed oil. The acrid principle was 
obtained from the alcoholic extract soluble in water by agitating with 
petroleum ether. The moisture was 10 86 per cent., and the ash 3'90 per cent, 
( Amer.Journ , Phorm., Dec. 1890). (Pharmacographia Indica, III. 3-4). 
882 . Gelsia coromancleliana, Vahl. H.F.B.I., IV. 
251 ; Roxb. 491 . 
Sans. : — Kulahala. 
Vern : — Kukshima (B.) ; Kutki (M.) ; Gaidai- tambaku (H.); 
Kolhal (Bom.). 
Habitat Throughout India, from tbe Punjab to Ceylon. 
An annual herb, with alternate leaves. Stems 2-3ft., 9tout, 
hairy, branched at summit. Radical leaves on long petioles, 
compound or pinnatisect, with several small leaflets or segments 
at base and large oblong, oval, acute terminal one. Cauline leaves 
alternate, sessile, oblong-ovate, passing into bracts, all coarsely 
dentate, hairy on both sides. Flowers yellow, moderate sized, 
on slender, glandular, pubescent pedicels, in long erect racemes 
l-2ft., terminating stem and branches ; bracts leafy. Calyx- 
segments oblong, acute, glandular-pubescent. Corolla £iu. diam., 
lobes rounded. Filaments hairy. Capsule J-Jiii. diam., subglo- 
bose, glabrous. Seeds oblong, truncate, veriucose. 
Uses : — The inspissated juice of the leaves prescribed in 
several cases of acute and chronic dysentery with manifest 
advantage. Its action appears to be that of a sedative and 
astrigent (Ph. Ind.). 
“Juice of the whole plant squeezed out by pounding it, is 
used in half ehittak doses, morning and evening, in cases of 
syphilitic eruptions. The juice of the leaves, mixed with 
mustard oil, in equal proportions, is applied as an external 
application for relieving the burning sensations of the hands 
and feet” (Surg. Mukerji, in Watt’s Dictionary'. 
“ If a little of the root is chewed in fever, or when there 
is urgent thirst, a cooling sensation will occur and thirst be 
appeased ” (Surg. Wilson, in Watt’s Dictionary 
“ Expressed juice of the leaves, mixed with sugar and water, 
used as a drink in bleeding piles” (Dr. Shircore). 
