Cinnamomum parthenoxylon

From 15.8 kilos of the wood of Cinnamomum parthenoxylon, Meissn., the Martaban camphor wood, known in Java as Selasian wood, 124 c.c. of oil were obtained. Schimmel s Report, April 1911, 43). It consists chiefly of safrole, and has the following characters specific gravity 1080, aD -i-l° 22, n22D 1.532 soluble in 2.6 volumes of 90 per cent alcohol. 

Oil from the wood of Cinnamomum parthenoxylon, Meissn., from the Federated Malay States, where it grows as a tall tree, has recently been examined at the Imperial Institute. Bull. Imp. Inst. 1925, 23, 421) Its constants were as follows specific gravity 1.103, (xD 0, nD 1.538, ester value 0.8, ditto after acetylation 3.5, congealing point -t-10°. The oil consisted almost entirely of safrole. 

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