Note 772 — I.—PHÆNOGAMOUS OR FLOWERING PLANTS. (continued 6)

We have to thank Mr. Broughton, late of the Cinchona Plantations, Ootacamund, for determining this point. In the bark almost saturated with fresh liquid kino, he utterly failed to obtain any indication of pyrocatechin by the tests which he found to render it easily evident in dry kino.