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Mafura or Mafureira (Trichilia emetica, Vahl.). 
Bririsu.—East Africa. 
These seeds are said to contain 60 per cent. De a fatty oil used 
in cookery, for soaps and candles, -&c. The value of the seeds in 
ge may be £8-£9 a ton. Kew Bull., Add. Ser. 1x. pt. 1, 
146. 
Niger Seed Oil, Inga or Ramtil Seed Oil (Guizotia abyssi- 
nica, Cass.). 
Britisu.—Tropical Africa, cultivated in India. 
The oil has Laie suggested as a substitute for Linseed oil in 
soap-making. It is used as a condiment and for burning. The 
seeds are also ae as food for cage birds. 
Okoto Nut or Koma Nut Oil (Pentadesma butyracea, Sabine). 
Britisn.—West Africa. Forrtcn.—Belgian Congo. 
The kernels contain an edible oil. Several eee of the 
seeds have been received recently for identificati 
See Bull. rm Congo Belge, 1912, vol. 3, No. _ p- 573. 
Chinese Wood Oil, Tung Oil (Aleurites spp.). 
Forricn.—China. 
This oil, which is a natural drying oil, has poisonous bi 
and is oaed in paints, varnishes, lno eum, kc. n icle on 
“The Wood-oil Trees of China and Japan’”’ is given in gre Kew 
Bull., 1914, 
Emi, Emi-Ori, Shea Butter (Butyrospermum Parkii, Kotschy). 
BritisH.—West Africa. 
The kernels yield about 50 per cent. of fat known as Shea 
Butter. It is used for soap and candle making and in the manu- 
facture of vegetable butters. See Kew. Bull. Add. Ser. ix. pt. 3, 
p. 410. 
In the above notes most of the principal fatty oils ya men- 
tioned together with a few of the more uncommon kinds to which 
attention has been directed lately. There are, tec a large 
number of other kinds of fatty oils derived from seeds, such as 
Dilo Seed Oil (Calophyllum Inophyllum, L. ds Vateria indica, L., 
ndia; Poppy ye Oil (Papaver somniferum, L.), Asia Minor, 
Persia, Egypt, India; Tea Seed Oil Canada Thea, Link. 
India ; oe "Tree of India sia butyracea, me, India; 
Mimusops Djave, — Southern Nigeria; Argan Oil (Arganta 
Stderorylon, R. & S.); Cow Pea Oil (Vigna Pasion, Walp.); 
nes glabra, Vink. 
References to many kinds of oil and fats are to be found in 
the Colonial Report (Miscellaneous Series) No. 88, and in Kew 
Bull. Add. Ser. ix. Some of the newer kinds of oil seeds are 
dealt with in Kew Bull., 1913, p. 127, p..181 
