242 LINE. 
containing hydrocyanic acid. (Bull. Acad. Roy. Belg. (3) V., 
750.) The oil is obtained by three methods, cold drawn, by 
the aid of heat and expression, and by the use of solvents. 
Seeds 2 to 6 months old are generally used, as the oil from 
fresh seeds is viscous and turbid. (Brannt.) Four qualities of 
oil are produced, raw, refined, boiled, and artist’s oil. i 
Commerce.—In 1872, India exported to the United King- 
dom £1,144,942 worth of Linseed. In 1682 the total exports 
were valued at more than £3,000,000, and in 1885-86 and 87 
the average value of the exports was nearly £5,000,000. 
ERYTHROXYLON MONOGYNOUM, Pozi. 
Fig.—Cor. Pl. i. t. 88; Wight Ill. t. 48. 
Hab.—Hilly parts of the Western Peninsula, Ceylon. Red 
Cedar, Bastard Sandal (Eng.). 
Vernacular.—Tevadarum, Devadarum (am.), Adavi-goranti 
— (Can.). 
BE. monogynum is a shrub with pale bark and cuneate 
obovate leaves, the primary nerves of which are hardly 
distinguishable from the secondary, which latter are not con- 
nected with the intra-marginal nerve. The leaves of this plant 
are refrigerant, and were largely eaten during the famine in the ws 
Madras Presidency, in 1877, by the natives of several districts 
where it grew wild in abundance, andit was thought probable 
_ that they might be found to contain an alkaloid with proper 
ties similar to that which is obtained from BE. Ooca. Dr. 
Cornish just before he left India’ wrote to ask Mr. Lawson to 
have the subject investigated, and several consignments of the 
___ leaves from the Cuddapah district, were sent to the Government . 
 Quinologist for analysis, who found that they contain 10 
_ anesthetic principle at all analagous to Cocaine, but a bitter 
and tonic alkaloid which may have mitigated the pangs of 
_ hunger. Squibb’s method was used in examining these leave: 
