2G r. DIVEKS AND M. KAWAKITA 



TliG alcohols of bird-limo. 



To one of the two nicohols of bird-lime we give the name mochylic 

 a!coli.ol^ formed from the Japanese word mochi for (bird) lime or gluti- 

 nous matter, and to the other we attach the name iUctjUc alcohol, 

 cs:ientially the same as ilicic alcohol given by Personne to the single 

 alcohol described by him, but framed more in accordance with the 

 accepted nomenclature for alcohols. Our ilicylic alcohol differs but 

 little from Personne's ilicic alcohol. 



Both the alcohols of bird-lime are obtained in tufts of small, 

 slender, lustrous prisms, and are distinguishable from each other only 

 in solubility, in melting point, and in composition. 



Mochiilic alcohol occurs much more abundantly than ilicylic 

 alcohol. It dissolves well in 95-98 % spirit, but is almost insoluble 

 in 80% spirit. It is very little soluble in petroleum spirit in 

 the cold, is readily soluble in ether, and dissolves also in concentrated 

 sulphuric acid, to which, like bird-lime itself, it imparts a red colour. 

 It melts at 234° C and decomposes under atmospheric pressure at a 

 little below the melting point of zinc, the principal product being a 

 viscid matter, apparently the hydrocarbon to be described among the 

 products of the destructive distillation of bird-lime. In a vacuum it 

 sublimes slightly at a little above 160°, and freely and entirely near 

 and above its melting point, without decomposing, or changing in 

 melting point. Heated with palmitic acid in a sealed tube to 150- 

 160° it yields a body indistinguishable in essential properties from 

 bird-lime, a sticky transparent matter, readily soluljle in ether, but 

 nearly insoluble in the strongest spirit. Our atteinpts to form, by 

 acetic oxide or chloride, mochyl acetate have been unsuccessful. 



llicijUc alcohol differs from mochylic alcohol in melting at 172°, 

 and in being moderately soluble in 85 - 90^0 spirit, though almost 



