-. England Rs. 1,381. In 1885-86, India exported 33,000 tons 
es LEG UMINOS 2. | _ 
kesiig, Sisidies separating atackig acid, obtained another — 
acid which he identifies ‘with lignocerinic acid, O24H%80%, ~ 
discovered by Hell. and Hermann in 1880 in beechwood tar. 
- (Ber. xxi., 880.) The seeds, according to Corenwinder, 4 
contain in 100 parts 6°76 water, 51:75 oil, 21°80 nitrogenous — 
substances, 17°66 starch with some nitrogenous matter, 2° 03 
* phosphoric acid, potash, magnesia and chlorine. (Jour. de Phar. : 
et de Chim, 1875., XVIIL) 4 
Commerce.—The plant is cultivated in many parts of Wee 
ern and Southern India. -The fluctuations in the quantity 
exported and in the price of the seeds indicate that the crop is 
an uncertain one and liable to partial failure from the attacks : 
of insects or from an insufficient rainy seasou. .In the Bombay | 
market the price of the seeds ranges from Rs. 25 to Rs. 30 per 
kandy (5 ewts.) according as the supply is abundant ‘or other-— 
wise. There are two varieties, a light-coloured seed which is 
perferred for eating but does not yield much oil, and a reddish 
seed which yields much oil. | During late years there has been 4 — 
rapid increase in the quantity of ground-nuts exported . from 
- Bombay to Europe ; in 1879-80, the exports were valued at two 
_. Takhs of Rupees, in 1880-81 eight and one quarter lakhs, in 
1881-82 sixteen lakhs, of which latter quantity France alone 
‘took 12# lakhs, of the remainder Belgium took 2 lakhs ‘worth, 
- Germany Rs. 2,760, Holland Rs. 17,633, Italy Rs. 6, 000, and 
valued at 33 lakhs of rupees; in 1886-87, 47,000 tons valued at 
: Sadek, in 1387-88, 63,000 tons valued at 61 lakhs. : 
Fig.—Gart. Fruct. ti., t. 148; SRonsl,: and Drios.;. be: 85. 
-Nicker tree, Bonduc nut (Eng.), Tuus de. bourrique (Fr. ). 
Hab. —India. ~ ‘The seeds. : 
 Fernacular. —Katkaranj, Katkaleja, Bicarehcls (Hind. — 
Gech-chakka (Tam), Gackrchakays, (Pal) 
" CABSALPINIA BONDUCELLA, Fleming: | 
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