GUITTIFERE. “#75 
— and fragrant; sp. gr. 0°9315 at 16° C.; it commenced to congeal — 
at 19° and set at 16°. The saponification equivalent was 285°6. 
The oil yielded 90-85 per cent. of fatty acids, sp. gr. 0°9237 at 
16° and 0-8688 at 40°, melting at 37°-6, and possessing a com- 
bining weight of 283. If the oil be shaken up with a diluted 
solution of soda, and the red alkaline liquor be precipitated with 
n evaporation a green crystalline residue having the odour of | 
ept at the boiling dha the oil did not increase in weight. 
yielded only a minute trace of vdlutiie fatty acids. Three drops 
_ of sulphuric acid added to twenty drops of oil gave a red colo- 
ation with orange streaks; after stirring an orange-brown 
ure was produced. With. nitric acid a chocolate brown 
ure was formed. A residue soluble in boiling water was 
ot yield any crystals of that ‘substance. The oil must be 
sed with the cotton seed group of fixed oils. 
Commerce—The oil under the name of Laurel nut oil is 
xported from Southern India. The exports from Travancore 
for the past five years had the following values :—1882-83, 
Rs. 74,314; 1883-84, Rs. 68,767 ;.1884-85, Rs. 48,997; 1885- 
ps. 78, 845 ; 1886—87, Rs. 57, 148. The tariff valuation 
of the oil is Rs. 8 per cwt. as against Rs. 14 per ewt, for 
ocoanut-oil. The export from Alleppy in 1886-87 was 63 
In Bombay it is not exported, but the country-people 
ess it for burning, and use it medicinally. In Ceylon it is 
own as Domba oil. It is chiefly exported to Burmah, where ee 
fetches a comparatively high price. = 
Calophyllum Wightianum, Wall., Wight. 
Ic. ¢. 106. Sira Punnai (Tam. and Mal.). ‘This 
dant in Canara, where it is called Hebhees 
