LIGX ALOE. 4:66 



In the valuable work above quoted from, Dr. Djmock says : — 

 " The grass grows freely, though not very widely, on open 

 hill -sides in West Khandesh, especially in Akrani. The original 

 seat of manufacture was Pimpalner, but as the oil is in great 

 demand, the manufacture has of late spread to Nandurbar, Shahada 

 and Taloda. The makers are Mussulmen, who, at the close of the 

 rains, about Septemljer, when the grass is ripening, buy it from the 

 Bhils, stack it and set stills at the sides of brooks where wood and 

 water are plentiful. The distillation process is of the most primi- 

 tive description. The authors, after describing it, proceed — "In 

 1879-80, the number of stills was 197, producing about 71 cwts. of 

 oil. More than 100 stills are worked in Nandurbar alone, and 

 the increase of the manufacture is prevented only by the scarcity 

 of the grass. The oil is packed in skins, and sent on bullock-back 

 over the Kundaibari Pass to Surat, and by Dhulia and ]\Ianmad 

 to Bombay." 



Vol. L, p. 291 



Lign-aloe. Licareol is the name given by Ph. Barbier to a 

 primary alcohol of the fatty series, boiling at 199^^ to 200^ and 

 answering to the formula C^^ H^g 0, which he has found in the 

 oil of Licaria Guianensis (Guiana and Brazilian Lign-aloe, known 

 locally as "Licari-Kanali"), the products of which have been the 

 subject of a series of notes in Vols. cxvi. and cxvii. (1893) of the 

 Comptes Eendus. The optical rotation of this body is — 18^ 21'. 

 Upon being heated with acetic anhydride to 150^, it afforded a 

 hydrocarbon, C^q H^^ (Licarene), boiling at 176*^ to 178'-'*, optical 

 rotation + 7^ 51'. With hydrochloric acid, this licarene formed 

 a liquid hydrochlorate, C\o H^^^ Cl„, and with bromine a tetra- 

 bromide, melting at 103^^ to 104^. The nitroso-chloride of the 

 hydrocarbon yielded, upon boiling with alcoholic potash, nitroso- 

 limonene, with a melting point of 72^. Licarene would thus be 

 identical with dextro-limonene. But from the weak optical rotation 

 of licarene, it is to l)e inferred that this substance is a mixture of a 

 little limonene with dipentene and terpinene*. Heating with 



* Schimmel, Beiicht., Oct., 1893. These researches are also abstracted in 

 Pharm. Journ. [.3], xxiv., p. 82. 

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