me 
afforded 68 per cent, of oil. 
_ often as large as a bantam’s egg; the pulp surrounding 
_ oily and has @ rancid taste; it consists of two hemispheri 
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asa lep to hasten maturation. At Pondicherry the oil has a 4 
reputation as a specific for scabies, and according to Corre and ¢ 
Lejanne, it has been tried unsuccessfully at the Saigon hospital a 
as a cicatrizing agent. The Annamite name is yao-mono, 4 
The pounded bark is applied to swelled testicles. The ah: . 
when wounded exudes a small quantity of bright green Tess 
which is not collected, nor does it appear to be made use of in 
any way. ‘This substance is soft and entirely soluble in recti- 
fied spirit; it has a parsley odour, and has been confounded 
with Tacamahaca, the exudation of C. Calaba, not a pative of 
India. Rheede says that the resin is emetic and purgative; 
his expression is, ‘the tears which distil from the tree and 
fruit’ ; this is quite correct, as small tears of resin may © 
be seen adhering to the fruit. 
. Description.— The froit is ovoid or round, and : 
ish-yellow when ripe; it varies in size ; on old trees it 
nut dries up when the seed is mature, and the previow a 
smooth skin covering it becomes brown or black and mach 
wrinkled; the endocarp is hard, woody, and white, as thick 
as the shell of a filbert; within it isan inner endocarp, soft, 
and corky, of a red colour, thicker than the woody § 
towards the apex of the fruit, but gradually becoming very 
thin towards the base, the inner surface of this layer is highly 
polished. The seed is of the same shape as the nut; it is very 
cotyledons very closely united; under the microscope a stroma 
of small ovoid cells is seen, through which numerous large ves~ 
sels loaded with green oil run ina longitudinal direction. 
Chemical composition.—The resin melts easily and dissol¥ 
completely in alcohol ; according to Sommer it does not yie 
umbelliferone by dry distillation. The oil of the almonds i 
greenish yellow, bitter and aromatic, sp. gr. 0-942; it solidifies 
at + 5°. (Lepine.) The fresh kernels examined by one of 
gave off 30 per cent. of water in drying, and the dried kerm 
The oil was greenish-yellow, bi 
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