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there as a foment in contractions of the limbs occasioned by the 
land winds. In the Concan, the juice of the leaves with that 
of Mika (Eclipta alba) and Tulasi (Ocimum sanctum) is 
extracted, and Ajwan seeds are bruised and steeped in it, and 
given in doses of six massas for rheumatism. The juice in 
half tola doses with ghi and black pepper is also given, and 
in splenic enlargement 2 tolas of the juice with 2 tolas of cow’s 
urine is given every morning (Dymock). 
Chemical composition. — The leaves contain principally an essential oil 
and a resin. The oil possesses the odour of the drag and is neutral and 
almost colourless. The resin dissolves in alkaline solutions with a reddish- 
brown colour, softens below 40" C., and gives off aromatic vapours when 
heated. A tincture of the drug gives a green colour with ferric chloride. 
The ash of the air-dried leaves amounts to 7-75 per cent. 
The fruits contain an acid resin, an astringent organic acid giving a green 
colour with ferric salts and a precipitate with gelatine, malic acid, traces of 
an alkaloid and colouring matter. The fruits previously dried at 100° gave 
0-8 per cent, of ash (Pharmacog Indica. lit. 75). 
960. V. peduncular is, Wall., Var. Roxburghiana, 
h.f.b.i., iv. 587 ; Roxb. 482. 
Vern. : — Boruna ; Goda (B) ; Osai (Ass.); Bhadu, rnarak, 
(Santal); Karwru (Magh.); Hila-anwal (Cachari; Shelangri, 
(Garo) ; Navalfidi (Kan.). 
Habitat: — Behar, at Parasnath, E. Bengal and Khasia 
Terai. 
A middle-sized or large deciduous tree, 20-40 ft. Bark 
thick. Wood purplish or reddish grey, hard, close-grained 
youngest shoots minutely grey pubescent, brauchlets, petioles, 
and leaves glabrous. Leaves 3 foliate. Leaflets 4£ by lib., 
acuminate, lanceolate; mature glabrate above, densely covered 
by minute shining yellow resinous glands beneath, midrib 
sometimes puberulous ; petiolule of the middle leaflet J-|in. 
Petiole 2-4 in., slender or sometimes slightly winged. Peduncles 
3-4in., from the penultimate axils. Panicles often 6-8 by 2in., 
open. Bracts iVn. linear. Calyx rVm , grey-pubescent sub- 
truncate, Corolla, Jin., grey-pubescent lower lip longer than 
the tube. Drupe Jin. diam., cuboid globose. There are 
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