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value as palm oil, i.e. in November 1911, at Liverpool, £30 to £31 

 per ton. The cake obtained from it closely resembled Shea-nut cake 

 and was of a similar value, i.e. about £3 per ton in Liverpool. The 

 decorticated kernels, which contained about 40 per cent, of oil, were 

 valued at about £10 per ton c.i.f. at Liverpool in October 1911. These 

 kernels should find a ready market in Europe for soap-making, and 

 the cake to be used as a manure. As the tree is one of the commonest 

 in the dry-zone forests, ample supplies of the nuts should be always 

 forthcoming, providing an adequate price to pay for the cost of 

 production is paid for them. 



Table I. 



Yield of Fat. 



Table II. 



Constants of Fat. 



Closely allied to the above is Lophira procera, the Red Ironwood 

 Tree, which yields the Kaku or Ebba kernels. The fruit is usually 

 more sharply conical in shape than that from L. alata. The fruits 

 are small, owing to the fact that these large forest trees grow closely 

 amongst others, and the fruits are not so fully developed or filled out 

 as those of L. alata. L. alata usually grows in the open freely, or at 

 most only just touching a neighbom"ing tree, and thus the fruit has 



