116 ON THE FRUIT OF THE MYROXYLON TOLUIFE RUM. 
ether to free it from the last traces of bebeerine. There 
seems, from some trials which we have made, good ground 
for believing that it is a distinct alkali, but it has not been 
obtained in sufficient quantity to enable it to be subjected to 
ultimate analysis.* — Pharm. Journ. from Proceedings of 
the Chemical Society. 
ART XXXVIII.— NOTE ON THE FRUIT OF THE MYROXYLON 
TOLUIFERUM. 
By M . Leroy. 
It is about a year since M. Meneir made known a spe- 
cies of fruit imported recently into France, and which was 
stated to be derived from a tree called by De Candolle, 
myroxylon or myrospermum toluiferum, and which be- 
longs to the family Leguminosae. 
It is a pod, three or four centimetres long, two to three 
wide, inflated near the middle, furnished with a membra- 
nous wing at one of its sides, which gives it the aspect of 
the profile view of a caputchin, and presenting occasionally 
near the centre a depression, owing to the fact that the 
fruit sometimes contains two kernels, and sometimes but 
one. 
The colour is dirty yellow, with black spots of various 
sizes, and which increase so much in some specimens as 
almost to hide the yellow colour. The surface is wrinkled 
longitudinally and a section of the peduncle presents nume- 
rous nerves which correspond with the wrinkles on the 
fruit. 
*See vol. 8th, page 199 of this Journal for an account of the Bebeeru 
tree, eic.—JEd. Jim. Jour. Pharm. 
