of the percentage of volatile oil wide useful indications Bs in ihe a 
considerable percentage of extracted seed having been’ admixed, 
oe Oil of Chrysanticnnin indus, From 30 kilos of f Daln a 
a thrum blossoms (insect powder) P. Siedler?) obtained by steam distillatio 
== 0.067 per cent. of a salve-like mass having a: strong, peailiaty 2 
acid, melting at 62°, possibly eulmitic acid. The tile was anes vith ether 
Soxhlet apparatus. From the concentrated solution a ‘substance was se laiae 
a4 may have been a Bical es = 
Bes Siedler’s investigations establish the fact that the insecticide properties « ze) 
. powder are not due to the volatile oil of the Beeb : 
: Oil from the leaves of Cinnamomum pedunculatum. From the green le 
of Cinnamomum pedunculatum (N. O. Lauracee)*), a native of Japan, V. eS) 1C 
obtained by distillation 1 per cent. of a brown oil the odour of which remi ( 
camphor. dis0 1.0603; %px0—1.75°; acid v. 0; ester v. 5.6; ester v. after acet. 25. 
The oil contained 9 per cent. of hydrocarbons. and cineole, 3 per cent. eugenol, 
-. ~— Safrole and 28 per cent. of other oxygenous constituents. From the note in 
: it does not appear as to how the presence of these bodies was proved. = 
Oil of Cinnamon, Ceylon. Induced by the scarcity of cinnai 
in England, the London enpeyia) Institute Ups. been in communication 
pharm. Ges. 25 (1915), 279. — %) So far only the bark oil of this spate of 6 
Gildemeister and Hoffmann, The Volatile Oils, 24-ed., vol. Il, _p. 446. 
Chem. Abstr. Americ. Chem. Soc. 10 (1916), 370, re Pena: Record gy 
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