The Fruit

It is present in rowan berries and is characteristic of the fruits of the Rosaceae. 

Lanka. The fruits are broken by hand or machine, and the fiber extracted from the broken husks from which the coconut has been removed for copra. The husks are retted ia rivers, and the fiber separated by hand beating with sticks or by a decortication machine. The fibers are washed, dried, and hackled, and used ia upholstery, cordage, fabrics, mats, and bmshes. 

Other forms of visible injury are related to various physiological alterations. Air pollution injury can cause early senescence or leaf drop. Stems and leaf structure may be elongated or misshapen. Ornamentals and fruit trees can also show visible injury to the blooms of the fruit, which can result in decreased yield. 

In 1786 William Nieholson wrote A Dictionary of Practical and Theoretical Chemistry. In this work Nicholson mentions that a chemist named Neuman, on distillation of storax (a balsam derived from the tree Liquambar orientalis), had produced a fragrant empyreumatic oil . In 1839 E. Simon carried out some similar experiments, apparently quite independently, and again obtained this essential oil which he ealled styrol. In 1845 M. Glenard and R. Boudault reported on the production of styrol (now known as styrene) by dry distillation of dragons blood, a resin obtained from the fruit of the Malayan rattan palm. 

From the roots of this plant Terasaka isolated four alkaloids of which one, kokusaginine, resembles skimmianine (p. 414), which Obata has found along with kokusagine in the fruits of the plant. 

Melia azadirachta L. (neem or margosa). The bark, according to Cornish, yields a minute amount of a bitter alkaloid, margosine. The fruit is reported to be toxic and to contain an alkaloid, azaridine. The leaves are stated to be insect-repellent and from them an alkaloid paraisine has been prepared. The flowers are alkaloid-free. ((1) Ind. Ann. Med. Sci., 1857, 4, 104 (2) Carratala, Rev. Asoc. med. Arg., 1939, 53, 338 (3) Volkonsky, Arch. Inst. Pasteur Alg rie, 1937, 427 (4) Subramanian and Rangaswamy, Curr. Sci., 1947, 16, 182.)... 

While the natural monobactams do not appear to have clinically useful activity, a number of their totally synthetic analogue.s do. This field has been explored intensively in recent years and some of the fruits of this work are reported here. 

Salway hae examined the essenlial oil gf palm kernels, the fruit of Elais guineen.iis. 

Pickles aud Karl have made an examination of the essential oil distilled from the fruit of this plant which is alari known as An /mum mcilivm. They find that the oil resides almost entirely in the seeds. By distilling the fruits with steam, aliout 1 per cent, of a pale yellow oil, having an odour cecalliug those of lemon aud eucalyptus, was obtained. The Oil has the following chanteters —... 

Koat parts of the plant Teirnnthera polyofilha v, ciiiata, a plaut found in Northern India, the Indian Archipelago and Java, yield au essential oil. The fruit yields from to 6 per cent, of an oil nf the iollowing cbarncteis —... 

This oil is distilled from the fruit of Onriondrnm. w/ii iim, a native of the f vaiit and Southern Eorope. cultivated in many places all over... 

If the fruits cau he produced in quantity in Cape Colony, they should form a moat useful. source of supplv. 

A, The fruits of the Tasmanian tree are ptactically identical iQ shape wilh those of h ucaiypth- (tires Soh., and not liemispherical like those of the mainl.sml Euceilyniui omygdat iiia. 

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