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of the oil, (2) palmitic acid, in considerable amt. (3) linolenic and isolinolenic 
acids, the latter preponderating, and (4) oleic acid, in relatively small amount. 
A phystosterol, m. 133°, was also isolated. Both the physical properties and 
chem. compn. of the above mentioned oil render it evident that the cliaiil- 
moogra oil of European commerce could never have been obtained from 
Gynocardia seeds. On the other hand, representative samples of commercial 
chaulmoogra oil have been found to agree closely in character with the oil 
expressed from genuine Taraktogenos seed, thus completely confirming, from 
the chem. side, the botanical observations of Prain (Pharm. J. 64, 522 ( 1900) ; 
66, 596 (1901)) with respect to the source of chaulmoogra oil. Gynocardia 
seeds contain, besides the fatty oil, the cryst. cyanogenetic glucoside, gyno- 
cardin, 0 1S H 1S 0 9 N, which has, likewise, been made the subject of a complete 
chem. investigation ( J . Ohem. Soc., 87, 349 — 57 (1905); 97, 1285 — 9 (19101). 
Mr. Power also notes that the total compn. of chaulmoogra oil, as given by 
Chattopadhyaya, is equal to 110% which is obviously an error. Chemical 
Abstracts, Jan. 10, 1916 p. 86. 
N. O. PITTOSPOREJE. 
111. Pittosporum floribundum,, W. and A. 
H.F.B.I., I. 199. 
Syn. : — Celastrus vertieillata, Eoxb. 209. 
Vern. : — Tibilti (Nepal); Bongzam (Lepcha) ; Yekdi ; 
Yekadi (Bomb.) ; Vehkali ; Vikhari ; Vehyenti ; yekadi (Mar.). 
Habitat : — Subtropical Himalaya, from Sikkim to Garwbal. 
Khasia hills and Mishmi ; Western Peninsula, Concan to the 
Nilgiri. 
A small evergreen tree, very handsome. “ Bark very thin, 
light greenish-grey, with very prominent horizontal lenticels, 
up to nearly * in. long. Wood white, moderately hard, close- 
grained. Pores small, often sub-divided or in strings, scanty 
or irregularly distributed. Medullary rays fine to moderately 
broad” (Gamble). Branches often umbelled, glabrous. Leaves 
pale beneath, margin waved, 4-6 in. (Brandis). 2-8 by 1-3 
in. (H. /. and Th.), glabrous, shining, coriaceous, acute or 
acuminate, lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate. Flowers yellow, 
numerous, small, pubescent, in much-branched, terminal, 
compound, dense corymbs, sometimes leafy below ; branches 
1-3 in., spreading, glabrous or pubescent ; sepals ovate, obtuse 
or acute, subciliate. Petals erect, claws connivent. Stamens 
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