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Neither has the position of Reunion geranium oil undergone any 

 improvement in the meantime. Offers at 19 fr. were not rare, but 

 even they only received casual attention. The Syndicate continues 

 to pile up supplies in Europe, but in spite of all its efforts it is still 

 waiting in vain for the golden days. 



The output continues to be increased in a senseless manner, for 

 whereas in the first half-year of 1908 193 16 kilos were shipped, the 

 exports in the corresponding period of the current year amounted to 

 not less than 32 870 kilos, or almost double last year's quantity. Where 

 these quantities are to find a market remains a problem. 



East Indian geranium oil will henceforth be dealt with by us under 

 the headings Palmarosa Oil or Ginger grass Oil, because these pro- 

 ducts, which are distilled from grasses, cannot properly be classed as 

 geranium oils. 



Ginger Grass Oil. Very little of good quality has been shipped, 

 hence the supplies in Europe have remained short and the prices firm. 

 For the moment offers are again entirely wanting and just at present 

 it is impossible to form a judgment of the future of the article. 



Ginger Oil. In the course of the last few months the supplies 

 of raw material suitable for oil preparation have been very scanty, 

 and there has been a serious want of the cheaper varieties in general. 

 Only the most urgent requirements in ginger oil could be covered, 

 and the scarcity has found expression in a not inconsiderable increase 

 in prices. We were only recently able to make a contract for a few 

 important parcels of raw material, but their arrival is not expected 

 for a few weeks to come. 



Oil of Hyptis suaveolens Poit. This plant, which belongs 

 to the Labiatae and is known on the Philippines in the Tagal language 

 by the name of sub-cabayog, yields, according to Bacon 1 ) a very small 

 proportion of a green- coloured oil with a strong odour of menthol, 

 which in fact, as was shown by further examination, constitutes the 

 chief constituent of the oil. The slight oil-content (200 kilos material 

 produced only 27 g. or 0,0135 °/ ) excludes the possibility of distil- 

 lation on a large scale. 



As previously reported by us 2 ) the yield which was obtained in 

 Java from the same herb is considerably higher, viz., about 1 °/ . 



Hyssop Oil. In another place 3 ) we have published in detail 

 the results of our examination of the constituents of hyssop oil, to 



1 ) Philippine Journ. of sc. 4 (1909), A, 130. 



2 ) Report November 1908, 74. 



3 ) Wallach Jubilee Publication (Gottingen 1909, Vandenhoek & Ruprecht) 

 p. 414: E. Gildemeister and H. Kohler: Uber das Vorkommen von /?-Pinen und 

 1-Pinocamphon im Ysopol und einige Beobachtungen uber Isomerien in der Pinenreihe.. 





