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Title: American journal of pharmacy
Year: 1835 (1830s)
Authors: Philadelphia College of Pharmacy Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science
Subjects: Pharmacy Pharmacology
Publisher: Philadelphia : Philadelphia College of Pharmacy
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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ustration of the Canangaodorata to the magnificent Flora Javse of Blume; a copy of this,which in the original is handsomely colored, is reproduced with thisnotice. That the illustration is correct may be accepted from the factof the authors having seen numerous specimens of the cananga byDe Candolle in Geneva, also in the herbarium of Delessert. Theunjustifiable appellation Unona odoratissima, which has passed inaccu-rately enough into many writings, originated with Blanco, who, by hisdescription of the intense perfume of the flowers, which in a closedsleeping apartment produces headache, permitted himself to be drawnto the employment of the superlative odoratissima. Baillon designatesas Canangium the section of the genus Uvaria, from which he contendsthe Ylang-Ylang tree should not be separated. The notice of Maxi-mowicz, Ueber den Ursprung des Parfiims Ylang-Ylang, containsonly a confirmation of the derivation of the same from Cananga. 324 YlangYlang Oil. Am. Jour. Pharm,Mar., 1881.
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Cananga Odorata, Hook. fil. (One-half the natural size.) Am, Jour. Pharm.)Mar., 1881. J Ylang-Ylang Oil. 125 Cananga odorata is a tree attaining a height of 60 feet, with few butrichly ramified branches. The leaves, which are arranged in two rows,on short petioles and longly pointed, attain a length of 18 centimetersand a breadth of about 7 cm.; the surface of the leaf is somewhatfirm, and only on the under side, along the nerves, slightly downy.The beautiful and imposing flowers amount to as many as four, uponshort pedicels. The three lobes of the leathery calyx are finally turnedback. The six lanceolate flat petals grow to a length of 7 cm. and awidth of about 12 millimeters, are longitudinally nerved, of a green-ish color, and, when dried, dark brown. The somewhat bell-shaped,gracefully declining flowers, present a quite pretty aspect, althoughthe flowers of other related plants are far more attractive. The filaments of Cananga are very numerous; the somewhat ele-vated receptacle i

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