144 PHILIPPINE RESINS, GUMS, AND OILS 
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is an ovoid capsule, 1 to 1.5 centimeters long, and covered with 
soft, spine-like processes. 
Family ANACARDIACEAE 
Genus ANACARDIUM 
ANACARDIUM OCCIDENTALE L. KAstr or CASHEW NUT. 
Local names: Balibad or balibar (Bataan, Pampanga, Bulacan); ba- 
libat (Bataan, Mindoro); batuban (Bataan); balibog (Bulacan); kachii 
(Palawan); kasoi or kaswi (Isabela, Ilocos Norte and Sur, Abra, Tarlac, 
Bataan, Zambales, Manila, Rizal, Laguna, Batangas, Camarines, Mindoro, 
Capiz, Marinduque, Palawan, Misamis, Cuyo Islands, Zamboanga) ; kosing 
(Amburayan) ; sambalduke (Pangasinan). 
CASHEW-NUT OIL 
The roasted kernels are often used to make a very savory 
nut candy, and also, according to Richmond and Rosario,* for 
the adulteration of chocolate. They say that the expressed ker- 
nels yield a sweet, yellowish oil. 
Lewkowitsch + states that the yield of oil from the kernels is 
47.2 per cent and that the oil has the following constants: 
Saponification value.................-...-..--. sis SS, Sole 2c fae ee 195 
Todine.- value 220 ote eee ee 84 
Refractive index: (202): 2) b.29 Se 7 imate ee 1.4702 
Watt t says that: 
* *  * Two oils are obtainable from this plant: (1) a light-yellow * 
from the pressed kernels, of which the finest quality is equal to almond oil; 
and (2) “Cardole,” obtained from the shell of the nut—an acrid and 
powerful fluid efficacious for preserving carved wood, books, etc., against 
dower hays, 
Watt also mentions that the bark yields a gum which is ob- 
noxious to insects. ~ 
Anacardium occidentale is a small tree with a trunk which is 
usually small and crooked. It has a large, yellow, pear-shaped 
fruit, with a kidney-shaped seed attached to one end. Both the 
fruit and seed are edible, the fruit raw and the kernels raw or 
roasted. 
This species, introduced at an early date from America, is 
widely distributed in the Philippines. It is cultivated in towns 
and on farms, and runs wild in old clearings. 

* Richmond, G. F., and Rosario, M. V. del, Commercial utilization of 
some Philippine oil-bearing seeds; preliminary paper. Philippine Journal 
of Science, Section A, Volume 2 (1907), page 445. 
+ Lewkowitsch, J., Oils, fats, and waxes (1915). € 
+ Watt, George, The commercial products of India (1908). 
