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The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom - Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on by P. L. Simmonds
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Cultivation of Roses in the East and preparation of
Attar. Lemon-grass oil.

Citronella oil.

Patchouly.

SAPONACEOUS PLANTS.

SECTION VI.--DRUGS, INCLUDING NARCOTICS AND OTHER MEDICINAL SUBSTANCES

The COCA PLANT. _Cocculus Indicus_.

BETEL LEAF.

The ARECA PALM; extensive use of the nuts in the East
as a masticatory.

Narcotic properties.

Catechu, or Cutch; its astringent properties.

Davy's analysis.

Value of the Areca nuts exported from Ceylon.

The POPPY: increasing consumption of Opium in this
country.