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with hydrocliloric acid, collected on a filter, tliorouglily washed 

 to free it from acid^ and dried over a water bath. It was then 

 soluble in alcohol and crystallized on cooling from its alcoholic 

 solution in long needles melting at 117 — 118^ 0. The needles 

 were soluble in benzene, oil of turpentine, bisulphide of carbon, 

 chloroform^ and glacial acetic acid, but insoluble in water^ alka- 

 line solutions, and hydrochloric acid. They were neutral to 

 test paper, and gave no colour reaction with the hydrochloric 

 acid and pyrogallol solution, showing that this reaction is due 

 to another principle in the oil which has not yet been isolated . 

 {P/iarm. Joiirn.^ Jan. 24th, 1891,) 



Sesame oil extracted by ether has a sp. gr. of 0*919 at 23*^ C. 



Commerce. — Sesamura is commonly cultivated in India; there 

 are two varieties, the black-seeded and the white-seeded; the 

 former being generally known as til, and the latter as tili. 

 Til ripens rather later than tiU, and is more commonly grown, 

 mixed with high crops, such as Sorghum vulgare^ while tili does 

 best when mixed with cotton. Tili oil is preferred of the two 

 for human consumption, {Buthie arid Fuller.) 



The quantity of seed shipped from British India in the year 

 1871-72 was 565,854 cwts., of which France took no less than 

 495,414 cwts. In 1881-82, the exports from Bombay alone 

 were 994,120 cwts., valued at Es. 64,84,475. France continued 

 to take about 4-6tlis of the total exports. Besides this, 105,344 

 gals, of oil, value Rs. 1,12,122, were exported to Eastern ports. 

 In 1884-85, the exports from the whole of India were 2,654 

 thousand cwts., and in 1887-88, 137 thousand tons, but in 

 1888-89 the exports fell to 77 thousand tons. This fall was 

 probably due to an unfavourable season. No statistics of the 

 consumption of the oil in India are available. It must be 

 enormous, as Sesame oil is the food oil of all who can afford it. 



PEDALIUM MUREX, Lmn. 



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/. 2 ; Gartn: Fnict. ^., t. 58 ; 



WigJd Ic, t. 1615; Eheedc Hort. Mai. x,, 72. 



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Hab. — Deccan Peninsula, Ceylon. The leaves and fruit 

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