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chloride has the composition (C,, H,, N, O,), Pt Cl, H, + 44q 
The sulphate hydrochloride, tartarate, and oxalate are soluble in 
water, but excess of the acids precipitate the salts in brown flocks. 
acid present in the bark acts in a similar manner, and forms a 
difficultly soluble alstonine compound, which the author considers 
was probably Palm’s alstonine. 
Porpuyrine, ©,, H,; N; O, is contained, with other substances, 
in the light petroleum solution, from which it is removed by 
agitation with acetic acid, to which it communicates 2 fine blue 
concentrated nitric acid, a purple solution, becoming yellowish or 
brownish green. In acid solution it gives a blue fluorescence. It 
forms a platino-chloride (C, H,; N; O,), PtCl,H,. Only 0-6 grm. 
porphyrine was obtained from 2 kilos of the bark. 
ALSTONIDINE (composition unascertained) is separated from 
ght petroleum. It is readily 
but differs in its reactions with sulphuric acid and on 
pence which turn the latter bluish-green, then violet, the 
ATHEROSPERMA moscHatum. N. Zeyer (Jaresb. 1861, 769. 
I, p 23k. Sas 
. ictorian sassafras contains ash amounting © 
3647, on the air dried, or 4-06 on the bark dried at 100°C.; 
contains— 
NaCl K.0 Na,O CaO NyO Al,0, FeO: M,0; 80, P20; S02 CO. 
2675 4°033 8-321 45-445 4361 0-191 0-098 O-a77 1-443 1.186 1'396 3000 
