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loz. Last year, when there was indiscriminate tapping in the 
forest, the total collection amounted to 16 tons. Twenty per cent. 
man collecting the rubber does not average above 1 lb. a day o 
raw rubber, 
Coagulation.—This has been effected with salt (the salt water 
being smeared on the surface of the liana), by chewing, and by the 
use of a fruit termed “ Nogute.” This fruit is produced in abund- 
ance on a small tree or shrub, and both the tree and fruit bear a 
close resemblance to the well-known Kei apple (Aderia caf‘ra) of 
South Africa. 
Noguk or Nokok is probably a species of Flacourtia. * 
The acidity of the fruit is about that of good vinegar, and 
rather less than bottled lime juice. What the acid is has not been 
etermined, 
Method of tapping.—The present method is by shaving off slices 
of bark down to the cambium layer, but it is difficult to prevent 
these cuts being made too deep, and when they are made too deep, 
the tissue dies progressively above and below them. _ Slitting 
diagonally with a knife seems a better method, and this is now 
being tried 
The Nandi rubber liana has a fruit in the form of a largish 
propagating the Nandi rubber liana from nursery plants in the 
75 inches. Kapsabit, in the centre of the plateau, lies at an 
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warlike tribe with habits like the Masai, and troublesome on a 
of their raids on the Uganda Railway. They are located in a fine 
at 150 square miles. They do not practice kumri cultivation, and 
destroy the forest but little. 
