N. 0. AMAEYLLIDEAi. 
1279 
The resin was soluble in spirit and alkaline solutions, and gave a flue red 
colour with strong snlphuric acid. The tannin gave a green colour with 
ferric salts, and when determined separately amounted to 4'15 per cent, of 
the root. Oxalate of calcium was present. — (Pharmacogra. Ind. 111. 405.) 
1262 . Crinum asiaticum, Linn., h.f.b.i., vi., 
280 . 
Syn . : — C. toxicarium, Roxb. 285. 
Sans. : — Visbamandala. 
Vern . : — Chindar, kanwal, pindar, kanmu (H.) ; Nagdamani 
(Guz.) ; Nagdavana (Mar.) ; Naginka-patta (Dec.) ; Bara-kanur, 
Nag-daun. bodakanod (Beng.); Vishamungil (Tam.); Kesar- 
chettu, visha mungali, lakslnnin&rayandchettu (Tel.) 
Habitat : — Cultivated in Indian gardens. 
Herbs with large coated bulbs. Bulbs 2-3in. diam., narrowed 
into a neck, 3-1 2in. high, which is clothed with old leaf-sheaths. 
Roots from the short root-stock or base of the bulb numerous, 
vermiform. Leaves 3-5ffr. by 5-8in., linear-lanceolate, shortly 
acuminate, flat, narrowed into the sheathing base, coriaceous, 
bright-green ; margins smooth. Scape from the axils of the old 
leaves l|-3ft. up to lin. diam., compressed, solid, stout ; bracts 
2, spathiform, 3-4in., long, oblong, acute, papery ; bracteoles fili- 
form. Umbel 10-50-fid, somewhat bipartite, with a tuft of 
bracteoles in the sinus; pedicels f-lin. Perianth salver-shaped ; 
perianth tube 3-4in., cylindric, slender, green ; segments rather 
shorter, linear, recurved or revolute ; filament very slender, free, 
spreading, green, shorter than the perianth segments ; anthers 
reddish, 5 -fin. Flowers fragrant at night. Fruit rarely pro- 
duced, subglobose, l-2in. diam., 1-rarely 2-seeded, beaked by 
the fleshy base of the perianth, dehiscing irregularly. (Trimen). 
Uses: — The fresh root is officinal in the Pharmacopoeia of 
India and said to be an “ emetic, in small doses nauseant, and 
diaphoretic, analogous to squill.” 
[The dried sliced roots are also an efficient emetic, but 
require to be given in double the dose of the recent article. 
Sir W. O’Shaughnessy remarks (Bengal Disp., p. 656) that this 
is the only indigenous and abundant emetic plant, of which he 
