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firms in the perfumery line, the balance of 181382 kilos being distilled by 

 the distilleries of the Societe at Bar and Golfe-Juan. 



An examination of extracted oils of orange flowers which has already 

 appeared in Roure-Bertrand Fils' "Berichte" 1 ), and to the contents of which 

 we alluded in our last Report 2 ), has now also been published elsewhere 

 by the author, G. Laloue 3 ). 



Niaouli oil. Brimont 4 ) has obtained excellent results with Niaouli Oil 

 in the treatment of worms, a very common complaint among the convicts 

 in French Guiana. He prescribes it as follows: — 



R. 01. Niaouli 4,0 



Chloroformii 3,0 



01. Ricini ......... 40,0. 



G. Houdard 5 ) recommends in lieu of ordinary tincture of iodine, a mix- 

 ture of Niaouli Oil with that tincture. The mixture is said to have the 

 advantage of quickly causing fresh wounds to cicatrize and to act as a 

 powerful bactericide. It is also claimed that the mixture keeps better 

 than does simple tincture of iodine. 



Nutmeg Oil has undergone no alteration in prices. We prepare this 

 oil on the largest possible scale, and are therefore able to buy on the 

 most advantageous terms suitable parcels of raw material. It is true 

 that towards the end of 1910 there was an advance in the prices of 

 nutmegs, but we have such important quantities of oil in stock that for 

 the present we need not take any account of this upward movement. 



Nutmeg-tree bark oil. At Buitenzorg 6 ) an oil (yield 0,14%) has 

 been distilled from the bark of the nutmeg-tree. The sp. gr. of the oil was 

 0,871 (26°) and the opt. rot. —12° 14' in a 10 cm.-tube. 



Oil of Ocirnum sanctum, L. 7 ). This labiate is grown a good deal 

 in gardens on the Philippines. The leaves were distilled 48 hours after 

 being gathered and yielded 0,6% oil of a green colour, a sweet odour 

 reminding of anise, and giving the following constants: d|§ 0,952, 

 « D + 0, n D30O 1,5070, sap. no. 2,8. A fraction, b. p. 85 to 95° (9 mm.) con- 

 tained appreciable proportions of methylchavicol, which was identified 

 by oxidation into homoanisic acid (m. p. 85°). 



Oil of Ocotea (Mespilodaphne) pretiosa. Roure-Bertrand Fils 8 ) 

 have received from Brazil, under the name of Priprioca, a sample of the 



*) Berichte von Roure-Bertrand Fils April 1910, 48. 



2 ) Report October 1910, 87. 



3 ) Bull. Soc. chim. IV. 7 (1910), 1101. 



4 ) Presse medicale 1910, 800. Quoted from Apotheker Ztg. 25 (1910), 850. 



5 ) Presse medicale 1910, 800. Quoted from Apotheker Ztg. 25 (1910), 850. 



*) Jaarboek van het Departement van Landbouw in Nederlandsch-Indie, 1909, 64. 

 *) Bacon, Philippine Journ. of Sc. 5 (1910), A. 261. 

 *) Berichte von Roure-Bertrand Fils, October 1910, 3. 



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