[Footnote 2: According to information kindly supplied by Herr Reymann, in Paris, Nice, and Grasse, annually about 200 kilogrammes are used; in London about 50 kilogrammes, and equally as much in Germany (Leipsic, Berlin, Frankfort).] [Footnote 3: 25 grammes of oil from 5 kilogrammes of flowers, according to Reymann.] According to Guibourt,[1] the "macassar oil," much prized in Europe for at least some decades as a hair oil, is a cocoa nut oil digested with the flowers of _Cananga odorata_ and _Michelia champaca_, and colored yellow by means of turmeric. In India unguents of this kind have always been in use. [Footnote 1: _Histoire Naturelle des Drogues Simples_, iii. (1850), 675.] The name "Cananga" is met with in Germany as occurring in former times. An "Oleum destillatum Canangæ" is mentioned by the Leipsic apothecary, Joh. Heinr. Linck[1] among "some new exotics" in the "Sammlung von Naturund Medicin- wie, auch hierzu gehorigen Kunst- und Literatur Geschichten, so sich Anno 1719 in Schlesien und andern Ländern begeben" (Leipsic und Budissin, 1719). As, however, the fruit of the same tree sent together with this cananga oil is described by Linck as uncommonly bitter, he cannot probably here refer to the present _Cananga odorata_, the fruit-pulp of which is expressly described by Humph and by Blume as sweetish. Further an "Oleum Canangæ, Camel-straw oil," occurs in 1765 in the tax of Bremen and Verden.[2] It may remain undetermined whether this oil actually came from "camel-straw," the beautiful grass _Andropogon laniger_. [Footnote 1: Compare Flückiger, "Pharmakognosic," 2d edit, 1881, p. 152.] [Footnote 2: Flückiger, "Documente zur Geschichte der Pharmacie," Halle (1876), p 93.]