INDEX 



463 



Soja or soy bean, nutritive elements 

 in each portion of, i8g 



— . ■ — removed from soil 



by green crops of, 186 



— oil from, applications for 



food and industrial purposes, 

 190 



digestibility, igo 



properties and com- 

 position, 190 



oil cake from, 190 



analysis, 190 



original habitat, 182 



• pods ripen all together, 



— production with and with- 

 out manure, comparative re- 

 sults, 184, 185 



resistant to drought, 184 



— seeds, chemical composi- 

 tion, 187 



chief preparations from, 



by Chinese and Japanese. 190, 

 191 



mineral contents, 188 



oil content, 187 



roasted, used as substi- 

 tute for coffee, 191 



used in manufacture of 



diabetic bread and biscuits, 191 



— varieties of, classification, 



183 



number of, 183 



— yield in various countries 



compared, 185 



Solly, Professor, chemical composi- 

 tion and artificial colouring of 

 gum produced by Bittea fron- 

 dosa, 316 



Somaliland, coast of, export of gum 

 arable from, 327 



Sophora jafonica (tree), flowers 

 used as yellow^ dye, 339 



— seciDidi flora (shrub), poisonous, 



244 



— tomentosa (shrub), 244 



seeds, chemical composition, 



289 



stems and fruit of, 290 



valuable as fodder, 289 



— (trees), species of, wood, quali- 



ties and uses, 355 

 Sophorin, poisonous alkaloid, 244 

 Soudan, Leguminosa^ yielding 



building wood in, 359, 366 



— Egyptian, gum Senegal from, 



327 

 Soy cheese, 191 

 antiquity of, 182 



— milk, 191 



Spain, pea-nut in, average composi- 

 tion, 57 



Spanish lentil, 138 



— — see also Lathyrns sativiis 

 Spatolobns Roxburghii (shrub), 



fibre extracted from, 388 

 — ■ — wood, quality of, 355 

 Spinach, leguminous plant substi- 

 tute for, 394 

 Spirit manufactured from pods of 

 Pithecolobiiiui SaDiaUj 308, 309 

 Spirolobium australe (tree), medi- 

 cinal uses, 384 

 Starch, density of, 247 



— in decorticated roots of Psopho- 



carpus tetragonolobiis (Pois 

 carre), \^^ 



— in Leguminosae, 246 



— grains, formation of. 246, 247 



polarization of, 248 



striations in, 247, 249 



Starches, identification by shape of 



grain, 249 

 Stockman, Professor R., cause of 



poisonous properties of Legu- 



minosae, 239 

 Storckiella PaiicJieri (tree), wood, 



362 

 Strecker, absorption of atmospheric 



nitrogen by Leguminosse, 14 

 Stryphiiodendron B ar b at i m am 



(tree), wood, uses of, 370 



— polyphylliDii (tree), medicinal 



uses, 384 

 Stylosanthes, valuable as fodder, 



289 

 Sugar, effect on Azotobacter chroo- 



coccuni, 42, 43 



— cane, use of Crotalaria as green 



manure for, 99 



growers, cultivation of pea- 

 nut by, 69 



— • canes, cultivation of Leguminosae 

 between, advantage, 223 



growth of non-trailing varie- 

 ties of cowpea between, 206 



rows of, cultivation of peas 



or cowjDeas between, 267 



— — topped, and Leguminosae, 



comparative table of elements 

 abstracted from soil by, 266 



value of Leguminosae as 



green manure for, 259 



— plantations, yield of pea-nut on. 



Sulphuric acid, amount contained 



in green pea, 137 

 in kidney, French, or haricot 



beans, 167 

 proportion in seeds of lentil, 



127 

 Sulla, 127 



— establishment in Andalusia by 



importation of soil from 

 Algerian sulla prairies, 43 



