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of oil of peppermint, with a slight admixture of pennyroyal. Its 

 taste is diffusible, but less pungent than the oil of commerce. 

 Specific gravity 0.914. 



Zieria lanceolata Found iu Victoria, New South Wales and, 

 Tasmania. 



Yield: 100 Ibs. of fresh leaves and branchlets gave 6.5 fluid 

 ounces of a pale yellow limpid oil, having an odor scarcely dis- 

 tinguishable from oil of rue, perhaps a little less intense and 

 penetrating : taste, very disagreeable and acrid, strongly resem- 

 bling that of rue. The physiological effects of this oil is that of 

 a diuretic and diaphoretic. Specific gravity 0.950. 



Eriostemon squameus Yield, 100 Ibs. fresh leaves and bran- 

 chlets gave 4.0 fluid ounces. This oil strongly resembles the 

 preceding, it is however less disagreeable, being more aromatic 

 both in taste and smell, and- is these respects also preferable to 

 oil of rue. 



Pittosporum undulatum Found in Victoria and New South 

 Wales. 



Yield : 100 Ibs. freshly gathered blossoms gave 2.1 fluid 

 ounces of the oil : it is a limpid colorless fluid, of an exceedingly 

 agreeable odor, resembling the perfume of jasmine flowers: taste, 

 disagreeably hot and bitter with a slight trace of the flavor of 

 oils of turpentine and rue. 



