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tained 17°4 per cent.; he remarks that the fruit consists of two 
distinct portions, an outer and inner; 100 parts contains 75°4 
per cent, outer, and 24°6 per cent. inner. ‘The inner portion 
only contains 1°25 per cent. of tannicacid. Paul obtained from 
two commercial samples of beleric myrobalans 5°03 and 6°70 
of gallotannic acid. (Watt., Selections from the Records of the 
Govt. of India, Vol. J., pp. 83 and 93.) We haveexamined the 
pulp of the smaller myrobalan removed from the shell enclosing 
_ the kernel, and the kernels separately, with the following 
POM RT ecco s eS Nene 
; results :— | 
3 Pulp. Kernel. 
Moisture 8:00 11°38 per cent. 
1 A cweswxing 4°28 4°38 _ 
j Petroleum ether extract... +12 29°82 i 
eer. OXGrACE {6 iics caaane 41 61 3 
4 Aleohoke 2 jf AA RAT EAD "61 s 
Aqueous ,, wa wavdttiaes 38°56 25:26 rr 
Pulp.—The moisture was determined by heating to 100° C. 
_ the finely powdered material. The ash contained no manganese. 
The petroleum ether extract consisted of greenish yellow oil. 
The ethereal extract contained colouring mattter, resins, a 
. trace’ of gallic acid, and oil. No alkaloid was present. 
‘The alcoholic extract was yellow, brittle, and highly astrin- 
gent. In warm water it was partly soluble. The aqueous 
_ solution gave the following tannin reactions : with ferric chloride 
 indigo-blue, changing to damson on the addition of ammonia ; 
: with lime water a light yellow precipitate, turning onsediadl 
__ blue on adding an excess ; with bichromate of potash a dirty 
_ reddish brown precipitate ; with bromine water no precipitate ; 
_ with sulphate of copper a slight precipitate ; on adding ammo- 
_ nia a dense nearly white precipitate, rapidly becoming yellow 
and then yellowish brown. No alkaloidal principle was detected. 
Kernels ——The moisture was determined first by exposure 
over sulphuric acid ina vacuum : and then at 100° C. The 
ash contained no manganese. 
The petroleum ether extract heathen of a pale yellow, thi 
nsoluble — c 
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