136 THE WHOLE ART OF RUBBER-GROWING 



in the hot sandy loams of the coconut shores of 

 Ceylon, India and Java, and the island north of New 

 Guinea. 



Blihrodea Tonkinensis. — Discovered five years ago, 

 the Blikrodea, which is indigenous to the whole of 

 Indo-China, has become one of the most important 

 of the inferior rubbers imported into France. The 

 tree lends itself to ready cultivation, and the Ton- 

 kinese have already planted large areas with it, in 

 the hope and expectation of making Blikrodea rubber 

 one of the chief products of the country. 



Mangabeira. — The home of this plant is South- 

 East Brazil, where it is exploited on a large scale. 

 It is a low-grade rubber, but is in great demand for 

 the manufacture of overshoes, cheap macintoshes, 

 etc. America consumes nearly the whole of the 

 output of Mangabeira. 



