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amylic alcohol from portions of the oil examined by him that 

 passed over at about loO'^ when separating the terpene. He has 

 found similar traces in the oils of cajuput and eucalyptus. 



YoL. I., P. xvii. 



Hedyosmum. In the " Introduction" to the 1st series, p. xvii., 

 mention is made of a plant known in Jamaica as " Tobacco Bush/' 

 Heclifosmum nutans, Swartz.* The odour of the essential oil of 



this shrub certainly reminds one of the fragrance of fine " honey- 

 dew " cake tobacco blended with that of the best cake "cavendish" 

 (odours which are due to " ferment oils "), but, at the same time, a 

 careful observer will notice a trace of the odours of carvol and 

 carvacrol, and an inexperienced person will compare the odour to 

 that of " Old Brown AVindsor soap." A sample of this oil was 

 exhibited at the Colonial Exhibition in London, and, considering 

 that the leaves can be had in quantity, it is surprising that manu- 



Flor. Occident., ii., p. 951 ; and Grisebach, Flor. of West Indian Islands, 



p. 173. 



