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Shipments at Bombay of East Indian Geranium oils 
from Jan. i to Dec. 31^^ 1903. 
to The United Kingdom . . . 13 016 lbs. 
„ France 56091 „ 
„ Germany 25901 „ 
„ The United States .... 8000 „ 
„ Turkey 250 
r, Egypt • 22337 
Total 125595 lbs. 
We have added to the knowledge of Reunion geranium oil by 
an examination of the constituents boiling lower than citronellol and 
geraniol. For this purpose we used the first runnings of 30 kilos 
geranium oil, which had been collected in five fractions of i kilo each. 
By far the largest part consisted of menthone (which had already been 
found by Flatau and Labbe^), and of linalool, whose presence had 
been suspected by those authors but which they had been unable to 
prove with certainty. The alcohol could not be separated from the 
menthone by fractional distillation, but it was accomplished very easily 
and rapidly by oximating the menthone, and subsequently separating 
it by steam distillation. The bulk of the oxime then remained in the 
distillation-residue; it solidified after some time in crystalline form, and 
after suitable purification melted at 58° to 59°. The alcohol distilled 
of boiled at 68° to 70° (5 mm) and at 198° to 200° (760 mm), and 
had the following physical constants: d^50= 0,872; n^go^ = i>46i9; 
aj) = — i°4o'. With carbanil we obtained the linalyl phenyl urethane 
of the melting point 65° to 66^ first produced by Walbaum and 
Hiithig, and we finally identified the linalool also by oxidation 
into citral (melting point of the citrylidene-/?-naphtho cinchoninic acid 
197° to 200°). 
The lower boiling portions, amounting only to about 30 gm., were 
carefully fractionated. The fraction of the boiling point 100° to 140° 
had the unmistakable cough-inducing odour of amyl alcohol. The 
phenyl urethane melted at 41° to 43°; for this reason it cannot have 
been the ordinary isoamyl alcohol whose phenyl urethane melts at 
52° to 53"^. The quantity available was not sufficient for a more 
detailed examination. The next fraction, which boiled at 155° to 162°, 
had the following physical constants: dj^s© = 0,854; aj^ — — 19^11'. 
By means of amyl nitrite and hydrochloric acid, the pinene nitro- 
sochloride melting at 102*^ was obtained, which was identified as such 
by its benzylamine compound of the melting point i22° to 123^. 
1) Bull. Soc. chim. III. 19 (1898), 788. 
