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including that also found in the ether extract: it amounted to 20°6 
per cent., a lower percentage than that quoted by other investigators, 
who give the average of tannin in myrobalan from 20 to 40 per cent. 
Terminalia belerica, Roxb. 
We have made the following experiments with the seeds of the 
large-fruited variety of this tree (see Vol, II., p. 5, e¢ seg.) :—9°5 
grams of the kernels, equal to 22 in number, pulped with raw meat 
were eaten by a fasting cat at 11-40 am. At 2°30 p.m, the animal 
vomited several times, ejecting a number of worms and some fluid, 
but no-meat. 4 P.M. vomited bile-stained, frothy fluid, looks some- 
what distressed. No other symptoms were noticed, and on the 
following morning the cat was in its normal state 
Our experiments. thus appear to indicate the absence of any 
narcotic principle, but a substance which possesses emetic properties 
is probably present. 
 MYRTACE, 
Clove Culture in Zanzibar.* 
Zanzibar is noted for being the principal source of the world’s 
supply of cloves, anda report on the cultivation of this article of 
domestic economy may prove of interest. 
When speaking of Zanzibar, we include the islands of Zanzibar 
and Pemba, three-fourths of the entire crop of cloves being produced 
in Pemba. Those grown on the island of Zanzibar are reckoned of 
superior quality and command the better price, but this is probably 
due to the fact that the owners reside here, and can thus give their 
affairs the benefit of direct supervision. 
Certainly the conditions for their successful cultivation are most 
favourable at Pemba, where the rainfall exceeds that of Zanzibar, but 
the management being left to careless overseers, the result is the 
cloves are imperfectly cured and (but little care being observed in 
handling) are frequently marketed in an inferior conditio 
The clove tree was first introduced into this country by the then 
Sultan, Seyed Said bin Sultan, about the year 1830, since which 
time its cultivation has gradually extended, until it is now the chief 
industry of the islands, 
* Report of Consul Pratt, Reprinted from the Oil, Paint, and Drug 
Reporter. 
