146 - BIXINEZ. - 
Fatty matters soluble 
In Petroleum ...... 
Fatty matters soluble) ,, i 
in Chloroform .., } she : a 
f{ Glucose Oo 54 
Soluble in methylic | Albumenoid matters... 0°4206 — 
5-405 Fixed salts 0° 090 
| Non-nitrogenized or- 
ani 
ic matteTs....+. 4°3544 
( Albumenoid matters. he 
~ Residue insoluble in | Fixed salts 4 
methylic alcohol, 49-009 } Cellulose and other 1 — 
| non-nitrogenized : 
: L atters 20° 290 
Moisture 5-786 
100:000 
— (Journ. de-Phar.-et de-Chim., April 1st, 1885.) 
50-120 lee. 30° 120 
Commerce.—The seeds are collected in the Lower Himalayas . 
ee in December and are brought to Calcutta. Value about Rs. 12 
per Bengal maund of 80 Ibs. Of late yearsa false Chaulmugra 
seed has occasionally found its way to India. It has a thicker | 
Shell and yields less oil. 
False Chaulmugra, Lukrabo or Ta-Fung- 
Tsze.—The following article by Mr. E. M. Holmes appeared 
in the Pharm. Journal, 38rd Ser. XV., 41:—«In the interesting 
papers on ‘Chinese Materia Medica,’ by the late Daniel Han- 
bury, published in the Pharmaceutical Journal [2], Vol. IIL, 
seed is described and illustrated under the name of ta-fung-ts2es 
which he conjectured to be allied to chaulmugra. This seed 18 
largely used in China in skin diseases and leprosy, and is said 
to have been employed in that country for at least 300 yeatSs 
since the tree affording the seed is figured in the old Chines? re 
_ herbal ‘ Puntsaou,’ published A. D. 1596. The tree, howeve 
has up to the present time been unknown to botanists. The “ 
__ ta-fung-tsze is still an article of considerable commerce, figuring 
_ in the Consu'ar Blue-Books under Chinese imports by the 
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