104 FOLIA CAROB^E. 



following results.* In 1,000 grammes of air-dried leaves there 

 were contained: 



Carobina I 620 



Crystallic carobic acid 0.040 



Crystallic carobic, sebacylic acid i.ooo 



Carobon (balsamic resin) 26.666 



Neutral resin not perceptible to taste or smell 33-334 



Chlorophyll and vegetable wax 9.000 



Extractive matter . 10.550 



Extractive matter, tartaric, lactic and oxalic acids 10.000 



Malic acid and calcium 0.200 



Tannic acid 4. 390 



Albumen, dextrin, malic acid, inorganic salts, etc., fibrine 



and water 885 oio 



Balsam (extractive matter) 14 420 



Substance resembling humus 0.890 



Bitter substance 2.880 



*This report was given by Charles W. Zaremba, M. D., in the Therapeutic Gazette of Feb- 

 ruary, 1880, p. 34. 



