ERICACEA, B25 
readily soluble in alcohol, chloroform, ‘ether, benzol ee carbon 
bisulphide. Its salts are most powerful emetics, producing 
emesis without disagreeable after symptoms. 
The other alkaloid Inflatine was obtained in lstes olen 
ess, odourless and tastcless crystals, insoluble in water -or 
glycerine, but soluble in carbon bisulphide, benzol, chloroform, 
ether and alcohol. 
Therapeutically inflatine has no apparent importance. In 
spite of the statements of previous workers, no volatile or 
my Bot. M ag. 1984, es S Wislcton: (ng. s 
| —Hills of eae Burma and Ceylon. The éevanitial 
ular. b beitioniis (Jav.). | 
tory, Uses, &c.—This ramous shrub with ‘thick 
s leaves, white flowers and blue berries, inhabits the 
Gaultheria procumbens (Canadian Winter Green). - 
ughton, the late Government Quinologist at the Nil- & 
report to the Madras Government on the subject of — 
—*The oil from this source contains less of oF 
hydrocarbon which forms a natural and consider- 
with the Canadian oil, and therefore is some- _ 
nercial 
