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the following are the results published in their Eeport of October, 



1890 :— 



" All parts of the shrub possess pleasant aromatic odours, which, 



however, are strikingly different from one another. We obtained 



by distillation wdth water : — 



a. From the bark, about 0-43 per cent, of an oil smelling 

 like wintergreen. It possessed a sp. gr. of 0-923, and 

 boiled between 170^ and 300^ C. 

 h. From the berries, the abundant quantity of 5 per cent, 

 of an aromatic, spicy and camphoraceous smelling oil, 

 the sp. gr. of which w^e determined as 0*855. The 

 boiling point lies between 160^ and 270^. This oil 

 has been already prepared by Dr. A. AY. Miller, who 

 obtained a yield of about 4 per cent., and found the 

 sp. gr. to be 0*850. 



c. From the tw^gs, about 0'3 per cent, of an oil smelling 

 like camphor and calamus. Sp. gr,, 0'925. 



d. From the leaves, about O'S per cent, of an oil with a 

 very pleasant lavender-like smell. Sp. gr., 0-888." 



Canella Alba. 



The bark known in the Drug trade by this name, and sometimes 

 called " AVild Cinnamon " and " White Wood," is the produce of 

 Cmiella alba Murray, Linn. Syst. veg. iv., p. 443 ; Syn. Winterania 

 Canella, Linn. Canella Winter ana Ga^rtn., an aromatic tree of the 

 Nat. Ord. Canellacea\ found in the south of Florida, the Bahama 

 islands, Cuba, the wooded hills of Jamaica, Sainte-Croix, 

 Gaudaloupe, Martinique, Barbadoes and Trinity. It is figured by 

 Swartz in Trans. Linn. Soc. i., p. 96, t. 8 ;* P. Browne, Civil and 

 Natural Hist, of Jamaica p. 215, t. 37, f. 3 ; Plunkett, Phytographia, 

 t. 160, f. 7 ; Sloane, Voyage to Madeira, Barbadoes, Jamaica, ii., p. 

 87, t. 191, f. 2 ; Bentley and Trimen, Med. Plant., t. 26. 



This evergreen tree ranges from 15 feet in height, attaining in 

 some localities 40 feet. It is branched only at the top ; the bark 

 is whitish or silver-grey, by w-hich it is easily recognized in the 

 woods. The leaves are numerous, alternate, without stipules, 

 shortly stalked, 2 to 5 inches long, oblong-ovate, blunt at the apex, 

 tapering at the base, quite entire, thick, smooth, shining above, 

 pale below, the younger ones with immersed pellucid glands. The 

 * Copied into AVoodville Med. Bot. t., 117. 



