l14 ` VEGETABLE OILS OF SOUTHERN INDIA. 
cluded from all contact with air. They are used by the natives for the 
manufacture of soap, and for burning inlamps. They are in request in 
Great Britain for the manufacture of candles, and might also be used 
extensively in the process of spinning and cleaning wool and cloth. 
Their price in the North Division is Rs. 3-8 per maund. 
“ Ramtil or Valisaloo oil.—This is a good clear pale oil, with very little 
smell; it is attracting attention in the European market from its being 
suited to a good many manufacturing purposes; the price is Rs. 3 per 
maund. 
** Margosa oils.— There are five varieties of the Margosa-tree in the N. 
Division, each of which yields seeds from which an oil can be expressed. 
The common species of Neem and the Hill Margosa or Vaypum yield 
oils possessed of nearly similar properties and having a strong disa- 
greeable flavour, resembling that of cooked bad meat. These oils are 
used as external applications for eruptions and to keep away flies and 
insects from abrasions, itehy eruptions, or ulcers on the skin of mau or 
animals ; they are also used as rubefacients, and are said to be good ap- 
plications for broken knees in the horse. They are sometimes used as 
lamp-oils. Price Rs. 3-4 per maund. 
.. ** Cotton-seed oil.—This is said to resemble Linseed oil in its working 
qualities ; it is darker in colour, but appears to be a good oil. Price 
Rs. 3 per maund. 
** Cangoo, Poongum, and Kurrenje appear to be all varieties of the same 
oil, procured from the seeds of the Dalbergia and Pongamia. They are 
good clear oils, bearing considerable resemblance to Linseed oil both in 
colour and smell. Price Rs. 3 per maund. 
** Bulruckasee or Jamaica Yellow Thistle oil is pale, clear, and limpid, 
with hardly any smell; it appears to be a good useful oil. Price Rs. 3 
per maund. 
“ Gingelie oil.—There is perhaps no oil in India which differs more 
in quality than this, according to the method of preparation: in most 
bazaars it is a strong-smelling, rancid oil, with a very offensive taste, 
but when care and cleanliness are observed in the preparation it is a 
pleasant sweet oil. The seeds are now largely exported from the North 
Division for the purpose of manufacturing salad oil or substitutes for it. 
The native methods of preparing oils are so slovenly and careless, that 
European manufacturers find it to be more advantageous to import the 
raw seed and prepare the oils for themselves. The sample of Gingelie 
