N. 0. F.UPHORBIACE/E. 
1141 
The leaves are, in Baroda, used as an infusion with fenu- 
greek seeds in cases of chronic dysentery, and are also con- 
sidered a bitter tonic. In the same locality the milky juice is 
considered a good application to offensive sores. 
Chemical composition . — The pulpy portion of the fruit dried at 100 0 C., 
and freed from the nuts, had the following composition : — 
Ether extract (gallic acid, &c.) ... ... ... 11-32 
Alcoholic extract (tannin, sugar, &c.) ... ... 3010 
Aqueous extract (gum, &c.) ... ... ... 13'75 
Soda extract (albumen, &c.) ... ... ... 18-08 
Crude cellulose ... ... ... ... 17‘80 
Mineral matter ... ... ... ... 4'12 
Moisture and loss ... ... ... ... 3 88 
100-00 
The acidity of the fruit was found to bo equal to 9-6 por cent., calculated 
ns acetic acid. The amount of tannic acid, estimated with acetate of load 
solution, was 85 per cent, and 10 per cent, of glucose was estimated by 
means of Folding's solution on an infusion of the pulp after the removal of the 
tannin. 
Lflvve considers this tannin to be identical with the ellago-tannic acid of 
Divi-divi. (Pharmacogr. Ind. Ill 268.) 
1131. P. madraspatensis, Linn., h.f.-b.i., v. 292; 
Roxb. 678. 
Vent . : — Nala userekee (Tel.) ; Kfinocha, hazarmani (H.). 
Habitat : — Drier parts of India; from Banda, throughout 
the Deccan Peninsula to Ceylon. 
An annual herb, but sometimes very woody at base. Stem 
l-3ft. erect, with long, slender, ascending, glabrous branches. 
Leaves on very short petioles, small, l-|in., cuneate-obovate, 
much tapering to narrower base, rounded truncate, but often 
apiculate at apex, glaucous and with lateral veins, conspicuous 
beneath. Stipules linear-lanceolate, very acute. Flowers on 
very short pedicels, male in small clusters, female solitary ; 
sepals 6, obovate-rotundate, obtuse. Male flowers : — Stamens 3, 
filaments connate. Female flowers : — Styles 3, very small. Fruit 
dry, very small, under £in., depressed, 3-lobed, glabrous. Seeds 
very finely muricate in lines. Disk of glands in both sexes. 
Anthers almost sessile on the column, erect, apiculate. 
