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oils of different properties resulted. ite | f & iG 
jon which potatical Species it belongs. The main constituent oF the ail. is cineole. 
; freed from the water. He pressed the camphor obtained by distillation, oe 
_ two, weeks and then separated t the solid camphor from the « oil by means of 
= 8) Please consult our Reports October 1908, 34; October ye he and | Octo e 
ae on the peat gaticn: ‘of ; camplios trees in Florida. pies 
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distillates, which deposit solid caplet The rosa ought te ‘faneiehy| an 
to the normal Formosa camphor. oil. However, even on rene the 
So far, no explanation has os found or the abnormal properties of ee: 
similar trees occur. ‘ ‘ 
We beg to recall the fact that the so-called Yu-Ju. oiky desu ae ee oy 
also showed a great resemblence to camphor oil, but differed from it by | 
depositing any solid camphor. The Yu-Ju tree looks so much like the éamphor | tree 
that it can only be distinguished from it by the smell of the wood.. It is still unkn vn 
of ie causes of the varying ee of eaeates dbtaived foie thie Earicle? trees, no 
in the years from 1907 to 1917. Oils were: examined from about 2000 trees. Ovi 
a range of a latitude of about 250 miles®*).. <iides ee hy Bhan a 
The. production. of camphor in Florida denne upon. the planting < of the trees 
the water from the oil and added this to the solid. teen wae ‘order ta | 
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of Formosa. Taihoku 1914; Report April 1915, 42. — 2) Journ. of Ind. an 
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