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Nov.,  1883,  i 
Mate  or  Paraguay  Tea. 
575 
cinnamylic  acid,  whilst  mate-tannic  acid  must  be  classed  in  the  group  of 
oxyphenylpropionic  acid. 
Soubeiran  and  Delondre  state  that  mate  contains  the  same  essential  con- 
stituents as  the  coffee  leaf,  and  in  greater  amount  than  the  coffee  seeds, 
which  I  can  confirm  after  numerous  experiments  with  large  and  small 
quantities. 
In  the  years  1860  to  1865  I  analyzed  mate  and  Congoha  leaves.  My 
analyses  were  made  with  fresh  leaves  of  the  Ilex  paraguariensis  from  the 
Orgel  Mountains  in  Neufreiburg,  and  roasted  and  un  roasted  leaves  from  the 
province  of  Parana. 
The  following  constituents  were  found  in  1000  grams  of  the  air  dried  sub- 
stances. 
Stearopteue  
Volatile  oil,  extracted  by  ether 
Fat  and  waxy  substance  
Green  coloring  matter  
Chlorophyll  and  soft  resin  
Brown  acid  resin  
Caffeine  
Aromatic  substance  
Bitter  extractive  
Mate-tannic  acid,  pure  
Pyromate-tanuic  acid   
Mate-viridic  acid,  crystallized 
Sugar,  saccharine  extractive... 
Albumen,  salts,  dextrin,  etc.... 
Extractive  matter  
Moisture  
Cellulose  and  loss  
Little  twigs 
from 
Neufreiburg. 
Leaves  from 
9-400 
19-700 
2-579 
30-000 
Orgel 
Mountains. 
0-021 
0-099 
19-800 
10  -900 
20  -966 
48-500 
938-321 
2-038 
27-472 
0-024 
39  -266 
47  -666 
8-815 
166  -660 
601-386 
Parana. 
0  019 
0-179 
18-800 
10-800 
51-200 
84-500 
16-750 
2-500 
44-975 
0-025 
6-720 
36-102 
65-130 
104-600 
557-700 
Mate  from 
Parana. 
5-550 
6-102 
25  -500 
5-550 
16  -785 
1-465 
0-  024 
1-  370 
18-189 
16  -610 
?08-379 
The  ash  of  mate  analyzed  by  Dr.  Busse  and  Mr.  Riemann  was  found  to 
contain  potassium,  sodium,  magnesium,  manganese,  calcium,  aluminium, 
iron,  phosphoric  acid,  sulphuric  acid,  carbonic  acid,  chlorine,  silicic  acid; 
but  the  analyses  vary  so  much  in  different  samples  as  to  lose  some  of  their 
value.  I  found  in  leaves  of  mate  gathered  in  Neufreiburg  oxide  of  man- 
ganese, 8-958 ;  sodium,  10  062 ;  and  potassium,  14-615  per  cent.,  whereas  these 
were  not  found  at  all  by  the  above-mentioned  analysis  in  leaves  obtained 
from  Rio. — Abstracted  from  Zeitschr.  Oesterr.  Apoth.  Verein.  in  Phar. 
Jour,  and  Trans.,  August  18,  1883,  pp.  121-124. 
