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e chief port of shipment; thence the British Colonies of 
Gambia and Sierra Leone obtained seed, and practically through- 
out these dependencies this is the form cultivated. The Cayor 
from Senegambia is coarser, ehiokordineked, and yields an 
r oi 
gypt produces a very prostrate form. ; 
On the Mozambique coast a rather small-podded ave is 
cultivated (W. W. A. Fi tageral, Tr noi Sarco 1898, p. 259). 
Very little vaesiears is to hand e ng the varieties met 
with in Asia. he African, the Tosdiaas plant’ is semi-prostrate, 
Two forms, differing in the recone of rc a d, are grown in the 
Malay Peninsula and in Jay: o forms are reported from 
Trincomalee in Ceylon (77 vip: siigt seulbibriat, iii., p. 567), two 
have been introduced into Queensland and North Australia, and 
est se in Japan. 
ea ied together ret -ecaboetis dias a whieh lace J apanese 
nuts as richest in oil, in the next rank those robe: the tropics of 
the Old World, and those from North America last. His analysis 
of ney ma nuts is vitiated by an obvious miscalculation, and we 
omit 
Percentage in dry substance. 
l 
Origin, Water, —— le 
Oil. |Proteids.| nitro- | Fibre. | Ash. 
genous 
atter. 
panese 
“ * Tojin-mame "a uve | 7°50 | 5460 | 2649 | 12°64 | 4:92 | 1-95 
mame ” --- | 15°61 | 54°54 | 32°66 599 | 488 | 1°93 
Trop o ot Old World: 
gc -- | 5°OL | 52°88 | 2833 | 14:51 | 1°55 | 2°73 
Rufique vid ee wee | 4°59 | 5348 | 29-73 | 14:02 | 1-24 | 2°53 
| 1°61 | 2°85 
. = T71 | 50°47 
ennessee (1888 crop) ... 3°87 | 49°35 
” 
. 48°60 
G ard to vee | 12°85 | 43°18 
§ ish, grown in 
Gage oe ct eek 41-17 
33°73 | 10°15 | 2:33 | 332 
| 
| 
i Ga a be 52°30 | 22°97 | 20-97 
z 
28°65 | 17:23 | 2:37 | 2°40 
27-07 | 19°30 | 252 | 251 
| 3049 | 21°86 | 2°34 | 2°18 
32°18 20°43 3°50 | 2°72 
r analyses m: tie: found in th Dhan: Pood Britis of India, 
p- 197, eet Pechnolugi der ee u. "Ole, and in the Journal 
Phar sec, 4, xvi . 14. Heuzé ir plantes 
industries Paris, ti iis ; p. 139) places the oe of oil of Spanish 
grown at 6 are of the eaey 
mount exaggerated, 
cent. ; 
wheitns ey new the statement, att sadlove the a 
VARIATION WITH CONDITIONS. 
Statements are made to the effect that the hotter the climate in 
hich the mat the greater its oil-contents. The first 
ees of this idea is in the following sentences from the 
