104 FOLIA CAROB.t. 



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 4-3QO 



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. 



