es vhich | do fee Scent Deciracne notice acne occurs which, Saltholighy. 
obably allied with the other, is not identical and may perhaps represent a new 
as enaprer oe Smith 1) deals with the question of using Eucalyptus Smithii REE: B, 2) 
& f little value. The best way is to cultivate “suckers” *) which develop a plentiful 
supply of foliage and are easily collected. The oil has the following properties: 
40.9098 to 0.9210; (ay +42 to +9.2°; sap. v. 1.3 to 5.6. It dissolves in 1 to 2 vol. | 
= f 70 per cent. alcohol and contains from 61.5 to 85.3 per cent. of cineole. Further 
eC ‘onstituents are pinene, a phenol, eudesmol (m. p. 79°), a araltnn melting at 64°, and 
x a small amount of esters and sesquiterpenes. — ; 
= ‘The method elaborated by IEE. Turner and R. C. Holmes. for the determination of 
= ineole by means of arsenic acid, which we discussed on page 19 of our last Report in 
ference to a paragraph printed in the Perfumery and Essential Oil Record [6 (1915), 20] 
_ however, an excess of secretion. It is recommended to inhale eucalyptus oil by means > 
of a mask, made from a paper bag. Inhalation should take place about three or four 
times a day, for about ten minutes every time, with repeated interruptions. Moreover 
eucalyptus oil should be sprinkled on the pillow at night, and on the handkerchiet 
ze pe. the day, so as to enable the patient to we constantly. 
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differing from the terpenes known so far, and which they called evodene. On being © 
_ reduced with platinum black dimethyloctane was obtained, proving its relation with — 
_myrcene. It forms a dihydro product, the tetrabromide of which remains liquid, whereas - 
40.799; n 1.4843. 2 
- From the fruits the authors. datteormore isolated a crystalline substance melee 
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e a me Calhatls and methylanthranilic acid. 
 Aubertia in 1911, by this name aauaad ae 
iz 7) Journ. Royal Soc. of N.S. W. 49 (1915), 158; Journ. Chem. Soc. 110 (1916), I. 272. — Perfum.. Bach 7 
(1916), 83 - — *) See Gildemeister und Hoffmann, Die dtherischen Ole, 2n4- ed., vol. III, p. 269. — 3) Suckers 
_ are shoots which grow from the tree trunks, bearing young foliage. — *) Americ. Journ. Pharm. 87 (1915), 
“101. — %) Therap. Monatsh. 29 (1915), 514. — °%) Journ. Pharm. Soc. of Japan; Pharm. Weekblad 1916, 181. 
From ree Ztg. 31 (1916), 115, and Perfum. Record 7 (1916), 13. — 7%) Berl. Berichte 44 (1911), 2885; 
i: eport April 1912, 134. 
ubstance. ais phenol gives a green colour wih ferric chloride and is readily soluble ; 
ge Slivation purposes; the leaves yielded an excellent oil; the wood, however, was — 
as since then been reported upon in another journal’) in a more exhaustive ‘manner. — 
= -Gbppert®). reports about two cases of eneunmnea aa ie eintes which were : 
~ successfully treated by inhalation of eucalyptus oil, the cure being effected in from : 
5 to 14 days. In one case there was a relapse aiter a few weeks, without there being, Ce 
a = Oi of Een talecarpa: From the volatile oil of the fruits of Evodia rute= ie ee 
—carpa, Hook. et Thoms. (N. O. Rutacec) Asahina and Kashiwuki‘) isolated a terpene 
the tetrabromide of per ornytcene: melts at 88°. Evodene boils at 67° (20 mm. ee S 
at 278°, the evodiamine, which, on being heated with alcoholic pees HaOG is oe es 
The designation evodene of the new. terpene is inadmissible inasmuch as Semmler 
iad Schossberger’) called a new terpene, isolated from the oil of Xanthoxylum ( ae 
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