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1188 INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS.

(2) A sample of the fresh fruit was gathered in Calcutta.

As the sample was very web, it was partially dried for analysis. It then contained :

The alcoholic extract contains a glucoside, a trace of acid, but no appreciable quantities of tannin or alkaloid. The colouring matter is precipitated from its deep purple alkaline solution as a reddish brown deposit which dries to an almost black powder.

Syn. : — F. comosa, Roxb. 644

Vern. :— Sunonijar (Santal); Juripakri Assam, Chittagong (Nepal); Kunhip (Lepcha); Pimpri (Bomb.); Jili (Chutia Nagpur); Pútra-janvi (Tel.)

Habitat : — Base of the Eastern Himalaya, Assam, and the Deccan Peninsula.

A very large, evergreen tree, with drooping branches. Wood soft, light-brown, in alternate layers of light-brown, soft tissue and darker (light on a vertical section) hard tissue, the breadth of the soft layers about half that of the hard ones. Pores moderate-sized to large, very scanty, evenly distributed. Medullary rays fine to moderately broad, rather numerous, uniform. A fine, avenue tree, and excellent for shade. (Gamble.) The tree is 50-60ft. in height ; it has 12- 20ft., clear stem ; and 6-8ft. girth. ;(Kurz.)

An evergreen tree, with a dense, divaricate crown and pendulous branches, all parts glabrous ; stipules small, lanceolate, glabrous ; leaves ovate to elliptically ovate on a slender petiole, 5-8in. long, obtuse at the base, rather long and bluish,

• Containing nitrogen ... ... ... 1.31 per cent.

† Ditto colouring matter ... ... 7.7 per cent

‡ Ditto silica (Si O₂). ... ... 0.35 per cent

‡ Ditto phosphoric acid (P₂O₅ ) ... 0.53 per cent