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Oil jrum the seeds o/ Calophyllum inophyllum. The seeds contain 
22*8 — 31*5 H,0 and 50*5 — 55 oil per cent. The oil has a yellowish-green 
colour, an odour resembling fenugreek, a bitter taste, and, on keeping, 
fatty glycerides are deposited. It solidifies at 8°, melts again at 8°, and 
has a sp gr. 0 9428 at 15", Keichert-Meissl number 0*18, saponification 
number 1960, acid number 28'45, iodine number 92*8, refracto-meter 
number 76 at 40° , it contains 0-25 per cent, of unsaponiiible matter. 
The increase in weight duo to oxygen absorption, when measured by Livache’s 
method, amounted to 0*25, 0*71, 1*32, and 1*81 percent, after 18, 40, 64, and 
136 hours. Treatment with 5 per cent, soda solution removes the resinous 
constituents. The purified oil solidifies at 4°, melts again at 8°, and has 
Reiohert-Meissl number 018, saponification number 191, iodine number 86. 
The fatty acids of the oil are chiefly palmitic, stearic, and oleic. J. Ch. S. Vol. 
88 pt. 2, page 277. 
The seeds are brownish black, almost spherical, J— 1 inch in diameter and 
consist of an easily-broken shell surrounding a round, soft, whitish kernel 
which weighs about 4 grins. The kernels contain 18 per cent, of moisture and 
65 per cent, of viscous, green, bitter oil. 
Home samples of kernels from Bengal contained 8 3 per cent, of moisture 
and 71'4 per cent, of oil having tho Bp. gr. at 15° C. O’ 950 ; acid value 45*9 ; 
Saponification value, 198-203 ; iodine value, 97*7. 
The oil is excellent for soap making. The residual cake is bitter and 
therefore suitable for use as a manure. 
Bulletin Imperial Institute 1913. 
133. G. Wiyhtianum, Wall., h.f.b.i., i. 274. 
Syn. : — C. decipiens, Wight ; C. Spurium, Chois. 
Vern. : — Kalpun, kutt-ponue bobbi, (Kan).; Cheru pinuay, 
putengi (Tam.); Tsirou-panna (Mai.); Cherupiani, sarapuna 
(Bomb.) ; Irai (Mar.) 
Habitat ■ — Western ghats, from the Konkan to Travancore. 
A middle-sized evergreen tree, almost entirely glabrous. 
Bark yellow, very characteristic. Wood hard, red. Pores 
large and moderate-sized, uniformly distributed. Medullary rays 
very lino, not very distinct. Numerous, interrupted wavy and 
anastomosing connective bands of soft tissue (Gamble). Young 
shoots 4-gonal, often pruinose. Leaves rigidly coriaceous, 
obovate, obtuse or oblong-cuneate ; 2-4 by li-2in. ; veins most 
prominent on the undersurface ; petiole gin. Racemes from the 
axils of all the leaves and sears of fallen ones, several-flowered, 
shorter than the leaves. Peduncles and pedicels slender. The 
Racemes are shorter than the leaves. Flowers i-£in. diam. 
Sepals 4, very thin, strongly-veined. Petals 0 for 4 small ones 
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