The museum report : a descriptive list of the donations for the years 1895-1902.

  • Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain
Date:
1903
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Credit: The museum report : a descriptive list of the donations for the years 1895-1902. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    4G Anhalonidine and mescaline were obtained to the extent of ri6 per cent, (about equal proportions of each), anhalonine, 0--16 per cent., and lopbophorine 0-14 per cent. (I'/iann. Joiirn. i'4],IX., p. 857). The characteristic feature of it? action is stimulation of the occipital cerebrum (Jniirn. J'Jn/sioltii/i/, Sept., 1899, p. G9). For illustration of the plants, see //'y. Miss<,iirl Bat. (lanL, 1898, p. 127. Anise Bark of Madagascar. This bark was examined in 1891 by Schimmel and Co., who received it from Madagascar. Gildermeister and Hoffman (I 'alatile Oils, 1900, p. 690-1) suggest that it may be the bark of Jlliciinn jHU-rifioniiii, ^lich., but that is a Floridan species. The late Prof, l^aillon referred it to ('iiuuiiiinsina frai/raiis, Baill. (( 'aiirllacc/r). The bark yields 8-5 per cent, of a volatile oil, specific gravity 0-959, and a rotation of —0-46. It consists largely of methyl-chavicol with a small amount of anethol. It is not certain that Prof. Baillon's determination is correct, since the bark has been microscopically examined by Dr. E. Meckel, who has no doubt that the structure of the bark indicates that it belongs to the 1 .anratcd. A tree called Laza in the north of Madagascar is mentioned in a list of timber trees by M. Cachin, who states that the wood smells of aniseed, and who refers the tree to the Lam acea. This tree has apparently not yet been identified botanically. Asafetida. The asafetida of Bi'itish commerce is probably derived from more than one species, since some of the specimens in tears do not turn red, even if kept for years. The tears derived from l''rnila Xart/ir.r, collected some years ago by Dr. J. E. T. Aitchison, have not the faintest tinge of red, but he could not ascertain that the drug was collected from this species in Kashmir. Whether the ordinary kind that turns red on exposure to light and air is derived from Ferula fntida, Kegel., or from some other species has not yet been determined, and the plant seen by Kfempfer, from which he saw the drug collected in Laristan, has not ever been absolutely identified. A plant received from Dr. D. Prain, obtained in Baluchistan, is not, so far as can be judged from its fragmentary character, either F. fn-tiila or /''. Xartlic.r. It was collected by Surgeon-Captam F. P. Maynard <it an altitude of 5,000 feet, on the hills between Samuli and Eobat, March 'Al, 1896. The young leaves of it approach more nearly in character to those of the Ferula alliacea, Boiss., but do not seem to be identical in character. A specimen of an Asafetida plant presented by Mr. F. W. Burbidge, which flowered in the Botanical Gardens of Trinity College, Dublin, in 1895, appears to be closely allied to Ju'riila alliacea, if not identicai with it.