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Oil-bearing Nuts of the Philippines.—In a recently issued 
Commerce Report of the United States of America some par- 
ticulars are given of two oil-producing seeds of the Philippine 
oil and should be especially useful for culinary purposes. 
According to Hooper in Agricultural Ledger No. 5, 1912, the 
drying oil used in Java for culinary purposes and as a burning 
ee . 
Differences have been noticed between the kernel oil and that 
extracted from the whole seed. The kernel oil is liquid and 
slightly viscous. With the Halpen test it gives a cherry-red 
colour. The oil obtained from the whole seed is similar to that 
with castor oil. 
_ Small quantities of these seeds have occasionally been imported 
‘nto this country but do not appear to have found a market. 
In the Philippines a decoction of the leaves is used as a wash 
11 suppurative cutaneous eruptions and the astringent fruit is 
‘mployed in Java as an injection in gonorrhea and in Western 
ndia as an article of diet. : 
The other oil-bearing nut referred to is the “‘ Balucanag 
(Chisochiton cumin tanus), belonging to a genus of trees an 
Tropics. The -nut has also been under investigation by the 
Bureau of Science. The nut is known in many parts of the 
islands, from Northern Luzon to Southern Mindanao. The name 
: Balucanag,”? applied to it in Camarines and Laguna, is taken 
gs 
or the same name is applied to another and well-known oil- 
bearing nut, although the two are not alike in any other par- 
Neular. [See Kew Bull., 1906, p. 119.] 
