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tree (Dipholis salicifolia) of Jamaica. Seeds of the buttertree (Bassia butyr- 

 acea) furnish an oil which is an article of some commercial importance in 

 India. The seeds of the buttertree (Butyrosperinum Parkii) of South Africa, 

 furnish an oil which is used as food by the natives. Gutta-percha (Dichopsis 

 Gutta), of Borneo, and the Malayan Peninsula is the source of some of the 

 Gutta-percha of commerce, which is used in surgical dressing, the same sub- 



Fig. 391. Gutta-percha Tree (Dichopsis Gutta). 

 tained from the latex of this tree. (After Faguet.) 



The gutta-percha of commerce is ob- 



