OILS: 
B. (EXPRESSED OR FIXED),) 
Austratia is as remarkable for its fewness of plants yielding fixed 
oils in any quantity, as it is for its wealth of plants yielding essential 
oils. As far asthe author is aware, not a single indigenous species 
actually yields, in this continent, fruits or seeds for the oil-press. 
1. Aleurites moluccana, Wr//d., (Syn. A. Ambinux, Pers.; A. 
triloba, Forst.; Fatropha moluccana, Linn.); N.O., Euphor- 
biacez, B.FI. vi., 128; A. ¢rzloba in Muell., Cens., p. 20. 
“ Candle-nut.” 
This tree also flourishes in the East-Indies and South Pacific 
Islands. The nuts look like small walnuts, only they are more 
spherical, and the kernels are so full of oil that in some of the 
South Sea Islands they are threaded on a reed and serve as a torch. 
They yield an excellent drying oil, useful to artists, and called 
Country Walnut Oil” in India, “ Kekune Oil” in Ceylon, and 
“ Kekui Oil” at Honolulu. (Treasury of Botany.) The kernels 
are said to yield 54.3 per cent. of oil, and 45.7 per cent. of amyla- 
ceous and nitrogenous substances. This latter gives 10} per cent. 
of ash, rich in phosphoric acid. (Staiger.) 
The results of a set of experiments by the Italian chemist, 
Nallino, are given in Wasts’ Dict., vii., 2nd Suppt. 239. 
Average weight of husks ... ... 6.5 grams. 
= 53 almonds Se ee ee 
Composition of husks :-— 
Wiater: © 43. oes <a: a3 eon 83272 
Organic matter ... ae ee ... 89.9 
Minerat-“do2*''s.. as ee iss | 6.39 
