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PHILIPPINE AGRICULTURE 



ovaries in each flower, and these remain separable in 

 fruit. Its seed, ground fine, serves as an insecticide, 

 which is used, for instance, to kill the insects on dogs. 

 The custard apple, or cherimoya, is usually called the 

 finest of the fruits in this genus ; it has not been intro- 

 duced into the Philippines. The ilangilang is a tree in 

 this family. 



Other Fruits. Among the numerous other Philippine 

 fruits are the chico; the chico mamey, a fine fruit which 

 seems now to be cultivated only at Alfonso in Cavite ; 

 antipolo, or camansi, the breadfruit ; nangka, the jack- 

 fruit; bilimbi; iba; casoy; and guava. 



