— 83 — 



The fraction boiling between 155 and 160° contained a body (b. p. 155 

 to 159° (20 mm.); d 23G 1,0378; « — 6°; sol. in 1,6 vol. 70%, in 2,7 vol. 65% 

 and in 6,5 vol. 60% alcohol), which Jeancard and Satie name marionol. 

 Marionol is probably a tertiary alcohol. It cannot be acetylated in the 

 usual manner, when heated with acetic anhydride in xylene solution the 

 saponification value after 1 hour's boiling was 147, after 3 hours', 168 and 

 after 5 hours', 189. 



We ourselves distilled oil from Guiana sandalwood in the year 1910. 

 At the time Dr. Giessler, Curator to the Botanical Institute of the Uni- 

 versity of Leipzig, informed us that the wood belonged to the N. O. 

 Lauraceas, and was probably derived from three species of the Genus 

 Acrodiclidium or Ocotea. The oils distilled by us gave the following constants: 



I II ill 



Yield 3,28% 2,48% 4,14% 



d 150 1,0036 0,9570 0,9990 



« D —4° 26' — 0°46' — 0°44' 



Acidv 1,9 3,7 0,9 



Ester v 10,6 68,8 2,4 



Ester v. after acet 72,9 113,3 54,1 



Solubility in 80% ale. .. IVol.a.m. 2Vol.a.m. lVol.a.m. 



Sandalwood Oil, West Indian. Uninterrupted supplies of consider- 

 able quantities of wood have enabled us to distil very large quantities of 

 oil, and as we have also been able to secure new and considerable par- 

 cels for future delivery, it is unlikely that the want of raw material which 

 has so often made itself felt in the past will recur for some considerable 

 time to come. We are in a position to supply West Indian sandalwood 

 oil in any required quantity, and are prepared fo make favourable special 

 quotations for large contracts. 



Sasanqua Oil. From the young leaves of Thea Sasanqua (N. O. Theacece), 

 a tree which is indigenous in Japan, H. Kimura 1 ) has distilled a brown 

 or violet-coloured oil (yield 0,4 to 1,0% calc. on green herb) of a sweetish 

 odour, possessing the following properties: d 2 io 1,0611, « D ±0. The oil 

 contained about 97% eugenol (m. p. of the benzoyl compound 69 to 70°) 

 and further, an ester of an alcohol with a pleasant rose-like odour and 

 traces of a substance which reacted with bisulphite. 



Sassafras Oil. A brisk turnover has kept prices in the United 

 States at a high level during the past few months, but the offers from 

 the growing districts are reported to have been rather more liberal lately. 

 As yet, however, prices have not given way enough to enable us to hold 

 out expectations of an early considerable reduction in our October quo- 

 tations. We have not received any later reports concerning the American 

 market from our New York branch. 



') Berichte d. deutsch. pharm. Ges. 21 (1911), 209. 



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