4 wilde Salie (Dutch). 
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below 342° F., nor above 347° F, until five per cent. has been 
volatilized ; when redistilled it is colourless, and a resinous pro- 
duct of a deep reddish brown colour is left in the retort. The 
pure oil in the natural state should not polarize nearer the 
zero point than —26, nor further than —60; the rectified 
oil, freed from resin, may polarize somewhat nearer the zero 
point than the limit given, and the first fractions should be 
dextrogyre. The oil dissolves iodine without explosion, is 
gradually coloured reddish by potash, and is slowly acted 
upon in the cold by fuming nitric acid. It dissolves freely in 
ether and absolute alcohol, but is only moderately soluble in 80 
per cent. spirit. The oil consists mainly of a terpene, €'°H'S, 
Specific gravity -8464, boiling at 176° C., and yielding a crystal- 
line dihydrochloride which fuses at 47°—48° C. (Beilstein and 
Wiegand, Ber, der Deutch. Chem. Ges. xv., 2854.) . 
Erigeron asteroides, Roxb., Maredi (Hind., Guz.), 
_ Sonsali (Mar.),is used in India asa stimulating diuretic in 
febrile affections. It is an annual, flowering during the cold 
season, and a native of dry cultivated lands. . 
Stem erect, from 6 to 12 inches high, ramous near the 
ground, round, hairy; branches ascending, longer than the 
stem ; leaves alternate, the inferior ones short petioled, oval 
or obovate, grossly toothed, the superior ones sessile, oblong, 
sub-lyrate, all are covered with soft down and are somewhat - 
glutinous; flowers few, terminal, peduncled, large, flat; 
hermaphrodite florets of the disc yellow, the female ones ligu- 
ate, those of the border blue, generally entire or only 
emarginate.’ (2oxb.) 
‘-BLUMEA BALSAMIFERA, Do. 
Fig.—Rumph. Amb. BS t. 24, f. 1. Oostindische ofte a 
Hab.—Tropical Himalaya, Burma, Eastern 
The camphor. oe re! 
