EAST INDIA BUTTER TEEE. §*£& 



1st. The oil, pressed from the ripe fruit, is used as a Oil used in 

 common lamp oil, by those who cannot afford to buy the l* ra PV 

 oil of the cocoa-nut. It is thicker, burns longer, but dim* 

 mer, smokes a little, and gives some disagreeable smell. 



2d. It is a principal ingredient in making the country for making 

 soap, and therefore often bears the same price with the soap> 

 oil of the cocoa-nut. 



3. It is, to the common people, a substitute for ghee, in cookery, 

 *,nd cocoa-nut oil, in their curries and other dishes. They 

 make cakes of it, and many of the poor get their livelihood 

 by selling these sweet oil cakes. 



4th. It is used to heal different eruptions, such as the and in medi- 

 itch, &c. cine - 



5th. The cake (or sakcy) is used for washing the head ; The cake. 

 and is carried, as a petty article of trade, to those coun- 

 tries, where these trees are not found. 



6th. The flowers, which fall in Mat/, are gathered by the Flowers eaten, 

 common people, dried in the sun, roasted, and eaten, as 

 good food. They are also bruised, and boiled to a jelly, 

 and made into small balls, which they sell or exchange, for 

 fish, rice, and various sorts of small grain. 



7th. The ripe fruit, as well as the unripe, is eaten by the Fruit eaten, 

 poor, as other fruits. Of the unripe, the skin is taken off, 

 and after throwing away the unripe kernel, boiled to a jelly, 

 and eaten with salt and capsicum. 



8tfe. The leaves are boiled with water, and given as a Leaves a medi- 

 medicine, in several diseases, both to men, and to cattle. ' 



9th. The milk of the green fruit, and of the tender bark and mu % 

 is also administered as a medicine. 



10th. The bark is used as a remedy for the itch. and bark, 



11th. The wood is as hard, and durable, as teak wood, Wood, 

 but not so easily wrought, nor is it procurable of such a 

 length for beams, and planks as the former; except in clay 

 ground, where the tree grows to a considerable height; but, 

 in such a soil, it produces fewer branches, and is less fruit- 

 ful, than in a sandy, or mixed soil, which is the best 

 juited for it. In a sandy soil, the branches shoot out nearer 

 to the ground, and to a greater circumference, and yield 

 more fruit. These trees require but little attention; 

 ^eyond watering them during the first two or three years, 

 in the dry season. Being of so great use, we have here 



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