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‘proportions. According to Schimmel & Co., the genuine oil of 
ves has a specific gravity of 1:067, and the oil of clove stalks 
specific gravity of 1:060 to 1:063. The former, which is 
med light oil of cloves, and comes over in the first period 
f the distillation, has the composition C? °H**, a specific gravity 
f 0-918, and boils at 254° C. Vapour density 7-7. It deviates 
the plane of polarization slightly to the left, and is not coloured 
on the addition of ferric chloride ; it is converted by Br into 
_ CS H22 (250°—260°). (Beckett and Wright Journ. Chem. Soc. 
29,1.) Eugenol has a specific gravity of about 1:080 at 0° C., 
and possesses the taste and odour of cloves. Its boiling point 
s 252° (Church), vapour density 64. Eugenol, C!°H'202, 
devoid of rotatory power, it belongs to the phenol class, and 
as been met with in the oils of pimento, bay, canella, cinnamon, 
According to G. Laube and H. Aldendorff, the percentage 
£37: 72, cellulose 10°56, ash 4°84. The dried spice yielded 
. Rtrogon 1:15, volatile oil and fat 27-72. A principle called 
caryophyllin, which occurs in silky needles in stellate groups, 
been isolated from cloves ; by the action of nitric acid it is 
verted into caryophyllic acid. (Watts, Dict. Chem., 2nd Ed.) 
Commerce—The imports of cloves into India in 1884-85 
ere 4,791,006 lbs., valued at Rs. 11,09,841, all from the east 
oast of Africa and Zanzibar. Of this quantity 4,598,419 Ibs. 
ame to Bombay. During the same year Bombay re-exported 
618,465 lbs., of which 1,112,224 lbs. went to the United King-° 
dom, and 473,799 lbs. to China and the Straits. 
MELALEUCA LEUCADENDRON, Linn. 
Fig.—Bentl. and Trim., t. 108. 
_ Hab.—Indian Archipelago, Malay Peninsula. The essen- 
tial oil. : 
q Vernacular: -—Kayaputi-ka-tel (Hind.), Kaiyoppudl om i 
7 Tam.), Kayaputi-tail (Beng.), Kayputi-nu-tel (Guz.), Kayaputi- 
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