














 "bleàchi ing ida . coverin |g processes e kosit, usually 
torn gi the article. reaches the first market. gener 
7 ** Coated inger” is prepared by being dried in the sun without 
removing the esep et wbich causes the article to assume a- crude. and 
et 
The rhizomes should ‘be collected after bowtie is mi for the e season, 
NINE um may be known by the leaves turning yellow and, gradually ; 
up. n 
ignei) ccu H, Harr. 
* 

Eo Since the above was in type an interesting note ae Mr. E. H. Gane 
n Fiji ginger (from Kew) has appeared in the “Pharmac eutical Journal, 
March 26, 1892, p. 802: -This piro that Fiji ginger * is remarkable for 
' dts exceeding fine aroma and peculiar epee e It i is also stated 



t 0 rhizom 
| packed į in a percolator and exhatitted with alcohol. - 
as the moi as all the important constituents of the plant were known 
to be soluble in it. A similar operation was simultaneous! 
on à Sin od of eque": | 





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is “ On comparison i it will be: seen i that, the | Fijian ginger! is by fa 
richest. in'aetive constitnents. ` The amount of volatile oil bt ed 
seems rather low conipared with the powerful aroma of the drug, t 
probably an appreciable amount was lost, owing to. the method 
Leitner Les more. Nota. oma M. lead. 40 8 
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