FOREST TREES AND PRODUCTS OF THE TROPICS 218 
Caranja alone the duty collected by the Government 
amounts to £60,000 per year. From the fruits an 
oil is expressed which is worth about $175 per ton for 
the manufacture of soap. But few of us have heard 
of one of the most famous trees of India—the cham- 
pak. This is a beautiful tree of the magnolia family, 
with sweet-scented flowers and valuable wood. It is 
one of the sacred trees of India, and is planted around 
the temples of the Brahmans and Buddhists. The 
flowers, when dried, form the commonest drug of 
India. Most of us know the clove-tree, a native of 
the Moluceas, but cultivated extensively in Zanzibar, 
the unopened flower-buds of which form the spicy 
cloves of commerce. The petals cf the ilang-ilang 
(Cananga odorata) and other trees of the tropics are 
of great value for perfumes. 
An extremely handsome tree is the allspice, or 
pimento, of Jamaica. The pimento plantations, or 
walks, as they are called in Jamaica, are formed in 
the following way: A piece of woods containing a 
few pimento-trees is cleared of all wood except these 
trees. This wood, however, is allowed to remain upon 
the ground and rot. Soon young pimento-trees ap- 
pear here and there, and at the end of about two years 
the ground is vigorously cleaned of all rubbish and 
brush so that the young pimento-walk may grow with- 
out hindrance. The berries are collected while green, 
