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distils in part without decomposition, is insoluble in “water 
monia, or alkalies. It is readily soluble in ordinary sical a 
ounts nonetion se esse a jelly on cooling, which afte rwards 
, Whilst a concentrated solution gives a neni 
ue mass on cooling. It is also soluble in e ether, benz 
chloroform, and light petroleum. Sycoceryl alcohol is doe 
attacked by boiling dilute nitric acid, a yellow resin being formed 
which, dissolved in warm alcohol gives both white and yellow 
erystals, and probably consists of a mixture of sycoceryl acid 
C,; H,,0,, and nitro-cerocylic acid (C,, H., NO, O,?). The alcohol 
yields no acid by boiling with dilute chromic acid, but on one occa- 
sion thin neutral prisms, probably sycocerylic aldehide, Cig Has O, 
were obtained. The alcohol dissolves in sulphuric acid without 
orming a conjugated compound, a viscid resin being thrown down 
by water from the brown solution. Pentachloride “of phosphorus 
acting at 60°C. on a solution of the alcohol in benzine, phi 2: 
hydrochloric acid. After the evolution of gas ceases and t 
excess of phosphorus chloride is removed, water and oiboad 
substance which is obtained on evaporating the aqueous solution. 
It is hol soluble in ether and chloroform, but difficultly soluble 
cohol 
hydrogen, but does not “form = wih acid. With chloride of 
acetyl and benzoyl it forms the acetate and benzoate of eycoceryl! 
respectively, 
St intone HASTILIS, Stenhouse. (An. Ch. Pharm. LVII, 84. 
Watts Dict. I, 2 .) 
The yellow resin from the grass-tree is soluble in alcohol, ether, 
or caustic potash. Its potash solution treated with hydrochloric 
acid deposits benzoic and cinnamic acids, Nitric acid converts it 
very readily into picric acid. BP distillation the resin yields a 
light neutral oil, which appears to be a mixture of benzine e and 
cinnamene, and a heavy oil, contig of phenol mixed w “ith small 
quantities of benzoic and cinnamic acids, 
