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bright-yellow soap, the green pigment of the oil having been 
changed into a bright yellow. 
The oil is bitter and aromatic; specific gravity .942; it solidifies 
at +5°. (Lepine.) 
Queensland. 
3. Cerbera Odollam, Ga@ertn., (Syn. C. Manghas, Bot. Mag.); 
N.O., Apocynez, B.FI., iv., 306. 
The seeds give an oil which is used for burning in India. 
Queensland and Northern Australia. 
4. Cocos nucifera, Z7zn.; N.O., Palmez, B.FI., vii., 143. 
“*Cocoa-nut Palm.” 
Oil is procured by boiling and pressing the white kernel of 
the nut (albumen). It is liquid at the ordinary temperature in 
tropical countries, and while fresh is used in cookery; but in 
England, and even in many parts of Australia it is semi-solid, and 
has generally a somewhat rancid smell and taste. By pressure, it 
is separated into two parts; one, stearine, is solid, and is used in the 
manufacture of stearine candles, the other being liquid, is burned 
in lamps. It is a pale-yellow oil, which, in cold weather, concretes 
into a white butter. One part of it boiled with caustic soda 
solution forms from two to three parts of a hard, white soap, 
perfectly soluble in alcohol. The oil, and the soap in a less 
degree, has a faint characteristic odour. Solidified cocoa-nut oil 
melts at 20° C; melted, it solidifies at 18° C. When kept for 
some minutes at a temperature of 240° C, it remains fluid for 
forty-eight hours. 
Queensland. 
5. Fusanus acuminatus, 2.2r., (Syn. Santalum acuminatum, 
A. DC.; S. Presstanum, Mig.; S. cognatum, Miq.); N.O., 
Santalacez, B.FI., vi., 215. Described in Muell. Cens., p. 64, 
as Santalum acuminatum, 
“ Quandong,” or “* Native Peach.” 
The kernels of the nuts (Quandongs) of this small tree are 
not only palatable and nutritious, but they are so full of oil that if 
speared on a stick or reed they will burn entirely away with a clear 
