140 THE USES OF PLANTS. 



PEDALINE.E. 



Sesamum indicum, DC, SESAME, TIL SEED or 

 GlNGELLY OIL, is the Oil of India, and is used in- 

 stead of, or as an adulterant of, Olive Oil, being itself 

 adulterated with Ground-nut Oil. It is used here for 

 soap-making ; but is chiefly crushed at Trieste and 

 Marseilles. It contains 76 per cent, of Oleine, with 

 stearic, palmitic and myristic acids.* 



LABIATE. 



Reference has already been made to the volatile 

 oils and their contained camphors or stearoptenes of 

 LAVENDER (Lavandula vem> DC.), SPIKE (L. Spica, 

 DC.), MINT (Mentha viridis, L.), PEPPERMINT (M. 

 piperita, Sm.), JAPAN PEPPERMINT (M. arvensis, L.), 

 PENNYROYAL (M. Pulegium, L.), THYME (Thymus 

 vulgaris, L.), and ROSEMARY (Rosmarinus officinalis, 

 L.), which are used chiefly in perfumery. 



Lallemantia iberica, Fisch. and Mey., one to three 

 feet high, yields 2,500 seeds containing a pure oil 

 suitable for food. It is cultivated in Syria, Persia, 

 and South Russia.f 



Pogostemon Patchouli, Pell., PATCHOULI, an essen- 

 tial oil, the perfume of which characterizes Indian 

 shawls. J 



Perilla ocimoides, L., of Japan, yields from its seeds 

 the YEGOMA oil used for Japanese leather-paper. 



* Spon's * Encyclop. Indust. Arts ;' 'Pharmacographia,' p. 425 ; 

 Bentley and Trimen, iii, pi. 198. 



f Christy, * New Commercial Plants,' No. 3, p. 14. 



j 'Pharm. Journ.,' iv (1844), p. 80; vi (1847), p. 432 ; viii 

 (1849), p. 574 ; ix (1850), p. 282 ; iv (1873), P- 3^2 ; xi (1880), 

 pp. 409, 813. 



' Kew Museum Guide,' p. 105. 



