N. 0. FUPHORCIACKvE. 
1155 
and inflorescence densely clothed with brownish or grey stellate 
tomentum. Leaves ovate to ovate-triangular, often lobed, 
4-12in. Petiole 2-5in. Flowers monoecious, white in large cymose, 
terminal panicles. Calyx velvety, bursting into 2 valvate lobes. 
Petals 5, ;£in. long Male flowers: — Stamens 15-20 on a hairy 
receptacle. Ovary 2-ceiled, hairy ; styles bifid to the base. 
Drupe 2-2£in. diam. Seeds large, oily. 
Uses : — The oil obtained from the kernels by expression, 
has been found in doses from one to two ounces to act as a 
mild and sure purgative, producing in from, three to six hours 
after ingestion free bilious evacuations. It was found to 
approach nearly to Castor oil in the mildness and certainty of 
its operation, but superior to it as having neither taste nor 
smell, and as producing its cathartic action without any nausea. 
It may be worthy of further attention. (I’ll. I u cl . ) 
A French chemist has made the following analyses of the kernels : — 
Water 
5-000 
Oil 
... 02-175 
Nitrogenous material 
... 22-653 
Non-Nitrogenous material ... 
... 6-827 
Ash 
... 3-345 
100-000 
Specific gravity of the oil 0'940. 
The results obtained at the Imperial Institute by the analysis of oil 
extracted from the present sample of seeds, and those obtained by investiga- 
tors who have examined Candle-nut oil previously, are given in the following 
table ; — 
Oil from 
Aleurites 
triloba, 
examined 
Oil from 
Aleurites viotuccdnu, 
examined by 
at the 
Imperial 
Institute. 
Lewkowitseh. 
De 
Negre. 
Fendler. 
Specific gravity ... 
0-9274 (15"C.) 
0-92565 (15'5"C.) 
0-920 (15°) 
0 9254 
Acid value 
1 72 
Saponifica tion 
value 
204-2 
192 62 
184-187-4 
1948 
Iodine value 
139-7 
163-7 
136-139 
114-2 
Hehner value 
90-4 
95'5 
Wollny-Reicbert 
value 
1-98 
Titer test 
17'8’C 
20°-21 o C. 
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