BY JOSEPH LAUTERER, M.D. 107 



of tannin and get rich in sugar and {vegetable slime. In a 

 similar way the catechutannic acid — very likely under the 

 influence of sunlight and by means of the chlorophyll in the 

 unripe pods — is desoxydized and hydrated, and is in this way 

 transformed into saponin. 



2. C, Hi, 0« ^ 6 H, ^ 14 H (^2 C) =C,, H^ 0,, 

 Catechutannic Water. Saponin, 



acid. 

 Very likely saponin is found in many acacias, and the albizzias 



are rich in it, too. In fact, the above-mentioned Acacia 

 anthelmintica is really an albizzia. Our native and ornamental 

 tree, Albizzia Lebeck, which extends also to Africa and Asia, has 

 been found, as early as 1886, to be very rich in saponin in the 

 flowers and in the whole inflorescence. 



