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is of recent growth. Older than it is the primitive method b 
which the negroes both of Africa and America extract a parent 
of the oil for their service. 
oil, Mp ot at resembles olive oil, replaces it largely i in 
and sed as salad oil, also in soap-making, burning, 
dyes. fasisstrid: ed diothctentiizie. It enters into such salves 
as cold-cream, pomades, &c. As an oil for lubricating it has some 
of oleoma argarine. Italso forms an adulterant of olive and almond 
oils, and is in its turn adulterated with poppy, sesamum, and 
cotton-seed oils. 
In cate a sweet. et of the bazaars is a mixture of this with 
saflow sesamum oils, the seeds being pressed together 
(Dymock, "Matera Uedica, India, ed. 2, p. 246). Arachis oil 
finds a further use as an adulterant of “ ghi, ” or clarified butter, 
and is recognised as officinal in the Indian Pharmacopoeia replacing 
olive o 
Alm a heat grown, a portion of the produce is Soe Td 
into oil oe local use. In Java it has long se Pa as an oil for 
illuminating, and for a less period in India. Tt burn with a clear 
and smokeless flame, and lasts longer than olive oil in A the propor- 
tion of ty hours to 8 hours per oz., but gives less light. 
and China pr roduce a gmall quantity of oil, which, how- 
measure does that from India. In China a medicinal is 
atsibuted to it (Debeaux, Sur la pharmacie des Chinows Poets. 
»P 
The use of the seed as a food is very extensive. It may be 
eaten when unripe, and has then, when cooked, the flavour of 
ans. When ripe, it is too oily to be more than an adjunct 
to the diet, and Monteiro (Angola and the River Congo, i., p. 131) 
narrates how a balanced food is obtained by the negroes by a adding 
to it such make fruits as bananas. Roasted in the shell it is 
sold in immense ame ary in the streets of the cities and towns 
of Eastern North Amer 
These ise. have served as a ct for coffee, 
cocoa, and spices. For escapee coffee they are pressed i 
moulds and as e ogl. Die ee 
vegetabilischen Nahrungs ss enhiigttaiin, Berlin, 1899, p. 321). 
The liquor from t is a clear reddish-br with little taste 
Austrian coffee” is the name by which this counterfeit product 
A they are pounded and mixe true 
e from them to a small extent. 
The seeds ground finely after being roasted make a butter-like 
sold as “ e Peantt heter - in the United States Viper rei 
7. 7) 
il-expression as performed in European 
mille i is a vaguabhe sae food, and some use of it for eee 
beings has been e recently. The meal which the more 
