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unfavourable weather, the crop is not of any importance. The prices 

 have already advanced considerably in the course of the summer and 

 will probably have to be raised still further because, at any rate for 

 the present, it is hardly likely that other producing districts will count 

 for anything. 



Champaca Flower Oil. According to a paper by Bacon x ), both 

 varieties of the champaca flower, the white as well as the yellow, are 

 found in the Philippine Islands. Experts there esteem the yellow kind 

 above the white, and maintain that it has the finest odour of any 

 flower in the archipelago. An attempt made by Bacon to obtain oil 

 from the flowers by steam distillation was a failure: he obtained only 

 a very small quantity of oil, and its odour did not much resemble 

 that of the flowers. On the other hand, maceration of the flowers 

 with paraffin oil (improperly termed enfleurage by Bacon), produced 

 an oil of excellent and intense odour. The process employed was 

 to allow the flowers to remain for 24 hours in the paraffin oil and 

 then to treat them with absolute alcohol. The same paraffin oil was 

 used again for macerating purposes nine times after the first. As the 

 loss of paraffin oil was great, it is intended to use volatile solvents 

 for further experiments in extraction of the flowers. The champaca 

 tree can be raised easily from seed and bears as early as the third 

 year. It is true that the yield of flowers is much less than that of 

 the ylang-ylang tree, but this discrepancy is made good by the much 

 greater value of the champaca flower extracts. 



Chrysanthemum Oil. According to S. Keimatsu 2 ), a yellowish 

 brown oil obtained by distillation (of the flowers?) from Chrysanthemum 

 sinense var. japonicum, locally known as "Riono-Kiku" to the extent of 

 0,8 °/o oi the material, contains i-camphor, of which body 40 g. were 

 isolated by the freezing-out process from 250 g. oil. The camphor 

 was identified by means of its oxime (m. p. 116 to 11 7°, inactive), 

 paracamphoric acid (i-camphoric acid) m. p. 202 , and its /?-bromo 

 derivative (m. p. 6i°). The oil which was left behind after the removal 

 of the camphor still contained considerable quantities of i-camphor. 

 This oil had the following constants : di.50 0,9394, [«]© — 1 2° 4', acid no. o, 

 ester no. o. In the fraction with the lowest b. p. 1-camphene could 

 be detected and was identified by conversion into zsobomeol. 



Cinnamon Oil, Ceylon, In an exhaustive article Cayla 8 ) treats 

 of the cinnamon tree, especially from the point of view of its distribu- 

 tion and cultivation. He considers in particular Chinese cinnamon, 



x ) Philippine Journ. of sc. 4 (1909), A, 131. 



2 ) Journ. of the Pharm. Soc. of Japan 1909, No. 326, 1. 



3 ) Journ. 6? Agriculture tropicale 9 (1909), 164. 



