228 STERCULIACEA, 
Commerce.— Cotton root bark is not an article of commerce _ 
in India; it may be obtained fresh in most parts of the country. 
Cotton seed, oil is largely manufactured in the United States ; 
in 1888 the Atalanta mills pressed 15,000 tons of seed, obtaining 
4,668,750 pounds of oil, worth 30 cents a gallon, or 73 lbs. ~ 
The meal obtained was 10,331,250 Ibs. and 300,000 Ibs. of 
lint cotton were removed from the seeds before expressing the 
oil. The lint was worth 18,000 dollars, and the meal which 
is used as a manure 88,603,58 dollars. 
The following plants belonging to the Malvacee are also 
used medicinally on account of their mucilaginous properties ~~ 
Hibiscus tiliaceus, Linn, Malva_ parviflora, 
Tinn., Malachra capitata, Linn., Urena lobata, 
Linn., and Kydia calycina, Rozb. The bark of the last 
named plant is used in sugarrefinery. It is a remarkable bark | 
abounding in gum; the gum comes from the liber, where the 
layers may be separated like pieces of lace; on scraping away 
. the outer layer, the gumis seen protruding between the longi* 
tudinally disposed fibres. In the Pharmacographia it is stated 
that Althea gum occors in cells; in this bark it appears to be 
formed from cellulose, as the cells seem to be disrupted, and 
the cell walls absorbed. 
STERCULIACEZ. 
= STERCULIA URENS, oz. 
Fig.—owb. Cor. Pl. fn25, t. 24. 
Hab.+Throughout India, Ceylon. The gum. 
Verna ular.—Bali, Gilé, Kilt, Karai, Kalru (Hind-), 
Karai (Guz), Péndrik, Kavali, Kandil (Mar.), Penévi (Can )» 
Kavali, Tabsu (Tel.), Vellay-putali (Tam.). 
_ History, Uses, &c.—It is uncertain whether this tree a 
a is mentioned by Sanskrit writers, as it appears to have bee? 
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