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INDEX 



de Villele, A., yield of chick pea, 

 98 



de \ ilmorin, weight of seeds of 

 bonavis bean, 122 



Vinegar, pods used in manufacture 

 of, 399 



Violet wood, 358 



Viscous matter, secretion by bac- 

 teria in root-nodules of Legu- 

 minosae, ^7, 40 



V oandzeia siibtcrrania (Bambarra 

 ground-nut), 70 



— • — chemical composition, 71, 72 



cultivation, requirements for, 



starch m, characters, 257 



grains in, 256 



value as food, 72 



— — • yield of, 70 



Vouacapoiia aiiicricaiia (tree), wood, 



quality and uses of. 362, 363 

 Voitapa Simira (tree), dye-stuff 



from, 342 



W. 



Water, content of, in pea-nut, 65 

 Weeding Leguminos.-e when young, 



267 

 West Indies, Legumiivosa? yielding 



building wood in, 351, 366 



Wheat, absorption of ammonia by, 



17 

 Wheel axles and hubs, wood used 



for making, 351,. 357, 3*^3. 3(^7 

 Wilfarth. See Hellriegel and Wil- 



farth 

 Wolf, absorption of atmospheric 



nitrogen by Leguminosae, 14 

 Woronin, i^resence of corpuscles in 



protoplasm of nodule cells of 



Leguminosae, 16 



X. 



Xanthoagathin, 320 

 Xylia dolabriformis (tree), 332 

 extracts from wood, composi- 

 tion and use for tanning, 345 

 wood, uses of, 370 



Y. 



Yam bean, no 



__ — see also Dolichos hiilbosus 



Z. 

 Zanzibar^ copal produced in, 323 



amount exported, 323 



Zimmermann, properties and com- 

 position of soy bean oil, 190 

 Zollernia viocitahiba (tree), wood, 

 uses of, 356 



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