1154 
INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 
The juice has been very successfully used by me in the 
treatment of scabies, eczema and ringworm. (B. D. B. > 
Oil was separated from seeds by treatment with alcohol into a nou-poison- 
ous insoluble and a poisonous solublo part. The toxic constituent, curaitolic 
arid, was isolated from the soluble portion by stirring with a hot saturated 
solution of baryta, washing the resulting paste with cold water, drying, 
extracting with ether, evaporating the ether solution, extracting the residue 
with absolute alcohol, and treating the alcoholic solution with, sulphuric 
acid. It set to a jelly at about 10°C. 
Curciii, the toxic principle isolated from fat-free curcas seeds by extrac- 
tion with physiological Sodium chloride solution, was very sensitive to acid, 
and had a retarding influence on the coagulation of blood. (J. S. Ch. I. for 
80-01914, p. 051). 
The seeds yield about 34 per cent, of oil and the kernels about 52 per cent. 
The oil is yellow when fresh, becoming reddish on exposure to the air ; it has 
an unpleasant odour, and strong purgative properties, more pronounced than 
those of castor oil. Curcas oil yields about 10 per cent, of solid fatty acids 
melting at 57'5° ; the liquid fatty acids consist of about equal proportions of 
oleic and linolic acids. The specific gravity is 0'919 to 0'921 ; saponification 
value, 19S'2 ; iodine value, 98'3 to 104-9 ; Reichert-Meissl value, 055 ; Maumene 
test, 65 to 68°. The fatty acids (95 5 per cent.) melt at 24-26°; iodine value, 
105. (Agricultural Ledger, 1911 — 12, No. 5. p. 163.) 
1145. Aleurites moluccana, Willd., H.F.B.I., v. 
384. 
Syn. : — A. triloba, Eoxb. 670. 
Sans : — Aksota. 
Vern . : — Akrot, Akola, Jangli-akrot, iH. and B.) ; Khasife 
hinde, Jouzebarri, (Ar.); Girdag£ne bind/, Cbahar maghze 
bind!, (Pers.) ; Jangli, Eranda, Jelapa, Jangli dkhrota Japhala, 
Akbod (Mar.) ; Akboda, (Guj.) ; Akrota, (Cutcb) ; Nattu akrotu 
kottai, (Tam.); Natu-akrotu-vittu (Tel.); Nat-alcrodu (Kan.); 
Vadam(Mal.) ; Kakkuna (Singb.); To-sikya-si (Burmri ; Kanyin, 
Mak yau lilt, Mak man yall (Shan) Buah keras, Kanieri (Malay). 
The names given in most parts of India to this tree are those 
which more properly belong to the Walnut, the akrot. It is, 
therefore, advisable to add the word “ wild,” e.g., Jangaliakrot. 
Habitat : — Occurs in various parts of India, especially the 
Malayan Peninsula. Wild in the Wynaaa. 
A large, evergreen tree, 40-60 ft., indigenous probably in the 
Malay Archipelago, cultivated in most tropical and subtropical 
countries, and here and there naturalized. Shoots, young leaves 
