N. 0 rctJPHORnUOF.jE. 
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ed doses.” (Dr. A. J. Arnadeo, in Pharmaceut. Jour. Ap. 28. 
1888.) 
According to Muhammadan writers, the milky juice is a good 
application to offensive sores ; a poultice of the leaves with salt 
cures scabby affections, and without salt may be applied to 
bruises, etc. In the Konkan, the root rubbed down with rice 
water is given as a remedy for menorrhagia. (Dymoclc.) 
Regarding the chemical composition of this and of I J . urina- 
ria, Linn., the authors of the Pharmaeographia Indica write : — 
Chemical composition . — The alcoholic extract from the whole plant was 
mixed with water acidulated with sulphuric acid, and agitated first with 
petroleum ether, then with ether, and finally rendered alkaline and re-agitated 
with ether. 
The petroleum ether extract was dark-coloured, and soft, with a tea-like 
odour, and extremely and persistently hitter. It was mixed with 3 per cent, 
caustic soda solution and re-agitated with petroleum ether, which removed 
the bitter principle contaminated with traces of oil and colouring matter. 
This extract gave the cuphorbon colour reaction when treated with sul- 
phuric and nitric acids. For the bitter neutral principle, we propose the 
name of pseudochiratin. 
The acid other oxtract contained green colouring matter, and was partly 
soluble in water with aoid re-action, the solution giving a dirty bluish-green 
coloration with ferric chloride, slightly precipitating gelatine, but affording 
no re-action with cyanide of potassium. 
The alkaline other oxtract contained an alkaloidal principle, which, after 
purification, was obtained in white feathery crystals without any special 
taste. With Friihde's re-agent it gave a light yellowish-red coloration, chang- 
ing to blue on heating ; with concentrated nitric acid, yellowish. No re-action 
with dichromate of potassium and sulphuric acid. 
1135. P. distichus, Mucll. An)., ii.f.b.i., v. 304. 
Syn. P. longifolious, Jacq. Roxb. 6S4. 
Sans. : — Lavani. 
Vern. : — Harfavauri, chalmeri (H.) ; Noari, loda, fruit — 
haripliul (B.) ; Narkuli (Uriya) ; Olierambola (Goa) ; Arunelli 
(Tam.) ; Racha usirike (Tel.) ; Kirnelli (Kan.) ; Nelli (Malay). 
Habitat : — In gardens throughout India. 
A deciduous tree. Bark, says Gamble, grey ; smooth, very 
rough, says J. I). Hooker. Wood light-brown, moderately hard, 
20-30ft., quite glabrous; with very robust branches and slender 
leafy branchlets, I-2ft. , terete below, angular above, mostly 
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