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Oil-seeds.— During the past few 1 there has been eee 
activity in the oil crushing industry and many oil-see 
submitted to Kew for dotermfanieae by those in ntereatea in the 
trade. There is a demand for seeds that will yield edible fatty oil 
with a marc that may be employed as a cattle food. 
Samples of the following seeds unfamiliar to or English market 
as oil-seeds have recently made their appearance, and it may be wel 
in recording the fact to add a few details as to their known 
properties and applications :— 
Lucuma mammosa [Sapotaceae] Mammee Sapote. A tree of 
Tropical America often cultivated in the West Indies for its fruit, 
which is of a rusty-brown colour, containing an agreeably flavoured 
pulp, bearing some resemblance e to quince marmalade. e seed is 
polished, with a large scar, and the kernel, which contains hydro- 
cyanic waits is es in the West Indies for flavouring, as a substitute 
for bitter alm 
Vigna Catiang [Leguminosae]. The Cow Pea, Chowlee (India), 
Tow Cok (China). An a ae widely cultivated in the tropical 
zone for its seeds, ahd e used as food. The green pods, 
sepals of a 1 papodsen i, are plucked while young and 
eaten as a vegetable. The stalks and pole are said to be employed 
in the preparation of a green dye. mple of seeds determined 
as a variety of this species haye r scaate been received from 
Roumania as “oil-seeds,” but according to Church in “ Food Grains 
of India,” they contain under two per cent. of oil. 
Afzelia quanzensis [ Leguminosae}. A large forest tree of Tropical 
Africa. The seeds, which are black with a scarlet aril, are used as 
charms, for the heads of hat-pins, and for necklaces. 
Parkia biglobosa [Leguminosae]. Nété, Nitta, or Nutta, African 
Locust, Caféde Soudan. A tree of 40 to 50 feet in height, native of 
Tropical Africa, with ‘pods 8 to 12 inches long. The seeds are 
compressed, involved in fleshy, at length dry and mealy pulp, which 
is used as food, and the parched seeds are employed as coffee in the 
preparation of a beverage. [See Kew Bulletin, Add. Ser. ix., 
pt. 1, p. 281.] 
Pongamia glabra [Leguminosae]. A moderate-sized almost ever- 
green tree of the tidal and beach forests and along tidal river banks 
all round India, Burma and Ceylon. Also along streams and rivers 
in the forests of South and Central India eae ae = 
rma. 
n sores. 
Semecar pus Anacardium daca bese The Marking Nut 
tree of India. The fruits consist of an oblong oblique drupe with a » 
thick black pericarp, between the layers of which are the cells con- 
taining the corrosive ae which forms the marking ink extensively 
employed in India to give a black colour to cotton fabrics. The 
_ drupe is seated on a yellow astringent hypocarp, which is sometimes 
ss usually either dry or roasted, The kernels contain a aes se 
