burger & Siegel, Inc., chemists and food technologists of Bal- 
timore, Maryland, on January 20, 1977: 
REPORT 
pH of 10% Suspension oe 6.2% 
Moisture Content (at 70°C in vacuo) — 8.57% 
Steam Distillable Volatile Oil — 0.57% 
Total Oils (Ether Extract) — 2.16% 2.16% 
Volatile Oils (Ether Extract) — 0.13% 
Fixed Oils (Ether Extract) —- 2.03% 
ANALYSIS OF ETHER EXTRACTS 
Glucosides (Acid Ether Extract) — 0.03% 
Fats and Waxes (Acid Ether Extract) —— 0.02% 
Principle Aromatics (Aroma and Oils) 
(Acid Ether Extract) ae 0.59% 
Alkaloidal Compounds 
(Basic Ether Extract) —— 0.95% 
Oils and Resins (Basic Ether Extract) — 0.23% 
Resins Insoluble in Acid 
and Basic Ether Extract —_ 0.09% 
Total Recovery — 1.91% 
The botanical history of this plant is simple, with apparently 
only three binomials ever having been applied to the concept. 
The combination under Quararibea is sometimes attributed 
to Standley [Rivera M. in An. Inst. Biol. (Mexico) 13 (1942) 
502], who actually did indicate this as a new combination in 
1923. Vischer’s publication of 1919, however, has priority. 
Quararibea funebris (La Llave) Vischer in Bull. Soc. Bot. 
Geneve, ser II, 11 (1919) 205, t.p. 205 (f1.). 
Lexarza funebris. La Llave ex La Llave et Lexarza, Nov. 
Veg. Desc., fasc. 2 (1825) 7. 
Myrodia funebris (La Llave) Bentham in Journ. Linn. Soc. 6 
(1862) 115. 
‘*Tree, often 20 meters high, with broad dense crown; leaves 
oval or elliptic, short-petiolate, 13 to 40 cm. long, obtuse to 
acuminate, rounded at base, glabrous except for the tufts of 
hairs in the axils of the veins beneath; flowers short-pedicel- 
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