SEED OILS 145 
Family CELASTRACEAE 
Genus CELASTRUS 
CELASTRUS PANICULATA Willd. 
CELASTRUS PANICULATA OIL 
According to Watt: * 
The seeds yield by expression a deep scarlet or yellow oil, used med- 
icinally. The oil deposits a quantity of fat after it has been kept a short 
time. Its odour is pungent and acrid, and treated with sulphuric acid it 
turns of a dark bistre colour. It is much admired as an external appli- 
cation along with a poultice of the crushed seeds. It is also burnt in 
lamps, and employed in certain religious ceremonies. The seeds sub- 
mitted to destructive distillation yield the “Oleum Nigrum,” an empyreum- 
atic black oily fluid employed medicinally in the treatment of beri-berit 
(Cooke). According to Dr. Dymock, the seeds are distilled along with 
benzoin, cloves, nutmegs, and mace. This oil is manufactured in the 
Northern Circars, the best in Vizagapatam and Ellore, where it is sold 
in small blue or black bottles, each containing about 4 oz., at prices from 
12 annas to one rupee a bottle. 
Lewkowitsch + states that: 
The seeds from the shrub Celastrus paniculatus yield a dark-red pun- 
gent oil from which “stearine’”’ separates on standing. In Ceylon this oil 
is known as “Duhudu oil,” and serves as a nerve stimulant; it is also 
used there for external application to sores. 
Celastrus paniculata is a large, woody vine. The leaves are 
alternate, somewhat oval shaped, pointed at the tip, rounded or 
slightly pointed at the base, with toothed margins, and 5 to 12 
centimeters long. The inflorescences are 7 to 18 centimeters 
long. The flowers are numerous, greenish or greenish white, 
and about .5-millimeter in diameter. The fruit is an ovoid or 
somewhat rounded, yellow capsule which is 7 to 9 centimeters 
long and three-celled. 
This species is distributed from northern Luzon to Mindanao 
and Palawan. 
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Family SAPINDACEAE 
Genus GANOPHYLLUM 
GANOPHYLLUM FALCATUM Blume. (Fig. 50). ARANGEN. 
Local names: Ardagen (Iloko in Union, Pangasinan); bagusalai (Mi- 
samis); gogong-langil (Cavite); gogolingin (Pampanga); gugo (Tablas 
Island); hdlas (Capiz); malatumbdga (Bataan); odé (Mindoro); palum- 
ping, pararan (Davao); sdleng (Bontoc); tugdbi (Tayabas). 


* Watt, G., A dictionary of the economic products of India, Volume 2 
» (1889), page 238. 
+ Lewkowitsch, J., Oils, fats, and waxes, Volume 2 (1915), page 338. 
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