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NOTE  ON  A  NEW  KIND  OF  KAMALA. 
vials,  usually  of  minute  capacity,  which  travellers  bring  home  as 
presents  after  a  journey  in  the  East.  They  hold  perhaps  about 
fifteen  drops  of  oil,  are  tied  over  with  bladder  and  red  silk,  and, 
what  invests  them  with  most  value,  are  sold  in  the  bazaar  to  the 
unwitting  traveller  at  a  high  price.  They  often  contain  simply 
a  few  drops  of  geranium  oil,  the  bladder  being  smeared  with  a 
touch  of  attar. 
Having  detailed  the  history  of  rose-oil  from  its  distillation  to 
its  transport  into  commerce,  but  little  further  need  be  said. 
Although,  as  has  been  shown,  it  is  the  Balkin  that  produces  the 
attar  of  commerce,  a  small  exception  must  be  made  in  favor  of 
the  districts  of  Grasse  and  Nice  in  Southern  France  and  of  Al- 
geria, where  also  attar  is  distilled.  But  the  quantity  there  pro- 
duced is  so  small  and  the  oil  of  far  higher  congealing  point,  and 
on  that  account  of  much  less  powerful  odor;  that  it  is  vastly  in- 
ferior to  the  oriental  attar,  and  is  mentioned  in  this  place  only 
as  a  curiosity.  What  has  been  written  about  the  production  of 
rose-oil  at  Brussa  is  simply  untrue.  At  Adrianople  even  rose- 
distillation  is  no  longer  attempted. — Lon.  Pharm.  Jour.,  Dec. 
1867. 
NOTE  ON  A  NEW  KIND  OF  KAMALA. 
By  Dr.  F.  A.  Fluckiger, 
Lecture  on  Materia  Medica  in  the  University  of  Berne,  honorary  mem- 
ber of  the  Pharmaceutical  Society  of  St.  Petersburg. 
Karnala  is  the  name  of  the  small  glands  which  densely  cover 
the  tricoccous  fruit  of  Mallotm  phillippinensis,  Miiller  Argov. 
(De  Candolle,  i  Prodromus,'  xv.  980),  formerly  known  as  Rott- 
lera  tinctoria,  Roxburgh,  and  are  simply  brushed  off  from  the 
ripe  capsules.  The  same  glands  occur  also  in  the  thin  tomen- 
tum  of  the  under  side  of  the  leaves,  and  even  on  all  parts  of  the 
male  spike  of  the  shrub  ;  but  in  the  latter  place  they  are  so 
little  numerous  and  so  scattered,  that  they  are  scarcely  seen 
without  the  magnifying  glass.  All  these  glands  are  of  an 
irregular  spheroidal  shape,  but  depressed  and  somewhat  flattened 
on  that  side  where  they  are  fixed  upon  the  capsules  or  leaves, 
while  the  opposite  side  is  more  regularly  domed.    If  they  are 
