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colour and varnish, linoleum industries, &c., and the cake 
suggested as a possible food for cattle. According to Watt 
(Comm. Prod. India, p. 631) the seeds yield a clear limpid oil; 
they have been sent to England as an oil-seed and they are 
used in Poona as a cattle food. 
Specimens of the fibre and oil from India and fibre from West 
Africa, including French Senegal (sample of “‘Da’’) are in 
No. 1 Museum. Haag: ben: 
Jubaeopsis caffra.—A palm known as ‘‘Inkomba ’? was dis- 
covered in 1909 in East Pondoland, at the mouths of the Umsi- 
kaba and Umtentu Rivers, by Mr. Charles Ross, then Con- 
servator of Forests at Umtata. Specimens received at Kew 
Jubaea. Stamens numerous. Calyx of male flowars 
3-partite, tapering into the pedicel. Endocarp with 3 pores 
just below the middle. 
Jubaeopsis. Stamens 9-16. Calyx of male flowers 
of 3 free sepals imbricate at the base. Endocarp with 3 pores 
above the middle. 
ocos. Stamens 6. Calyx of male flowers of 3 free sepals 
imbricate at the base. Endocarp with 3 pores at the base. 
Jubaeopsis caffra, Becc. (l.c.), is a tree with a trunk about 
20 ft. high, bearing a crown of pinnate leaves 12-15 ft. long, 
ricarp surronding a thick woody endocarp enclosing a cen- 
tral cavity, which, according to Dr. Marloth (Fl. S. Afr. ty. 
i pak Pole Evans, Chief 
p. 48) is empty, but according to Mr . Pol 
of the Division of Botany, Department of Agriculture, Union 
ou i ly collected fresh ripe nuts, 
contains ‘‘ milk just like the ordinary coconut,’”’ Dr. Beccari 
believes that plate 164 in Martius’ Historia Naturalis Pal- 
marum, erro d 
this plant; it is a reproduction of a drawin of a scene on the 
Fish River and was sent to Martius by Ecklon. 
With the exception of the widely spread Cocos nucifera, L., 
this is the only representative of the Cocoineae in the Old 
orld Cc. H, W. 
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