SEED OILS 147 



Family CELASTRACEAE 



Genus CELASTRUS 

 CELASTRUS PAN ICU LATA Willd. Langitngit. 



Langitngit 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 bui-nt 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-beri 

 (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 i oz., at prices from 

 12 annas to one rupee a bottle. 



Lewkowitsch f states that : 



The seeds from the shrub Celastrus panieulatus 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. 



Family SAPINDACEAE 



Genus GANOPHYLLUM 

 GANOPHYLLUM FALCATUM Blume. (Fig. 50). Arangen. 



Local names: Ardugen (Iloko in Union, Pangasinan) ; bagusalai (Mi- 

 samis) ; gogo (Cagayan) ; gogong-Mngil (Cavite) ; gogolingin (Pampanga) ; 

 gugo (Tablas Island) hdlas (Capiz) ; malatuDibdga (Bataan) ; odd (Min- 

 doro) ; palutnpung, pararan (Davao) ; sdleng (Bontoe) ; tugdbi (Tayabas). 



* Watt, G., A dictionary of the economic products of India, Volume 2 

 (1889), page 238. 



t Lewkowitsch, J., Oils, fats, and waxes, Volume 2 (1915), page 338. 



