OILS AND OIL-SEEDS, ETC. 135 



PEEL (C. vulgaris, Risso, unripe fruit), and CEDRAT 

 (C. medica, Risso, fruit).* 



SIMARUBE^:. 



Irvingia Barteri, Hook, fil., DlKA, already men- 

 tioned (p. 60, supra), is used in soap and candle mak- 

 ing. Containing myristine and laurine, it yields a 

 very hard soap.f 



MELIACE.E. 



Carapa guianensis, Aubl., CARAPA or CRAB OIL, 

 is said to be identical with C.guineensis, Juss., of West 

 Africa, and is allied to C. molluccensis, L. It is one of 

 the seeds known as Bitter Kola, and is used locally 

 for rheumatism, but in Europe for soap, since 18514 It 

 is said to act as a preservative to wood. 



ANACARDIACE^E. 



Rhus succedanea, L., and R. vernicifera, DC., the 

 LACQUER TREES of Japan, yield JAPANESE WAX, 

 used for candle-making, from their fruits, now avail- 

 able to our commerce from the opening of Japanese 

 ports. 



MORINGACE^:. 



Moringa pterygosperma, Gaert, and M. aptera, 

 Gaert., yield BEN OIL, or OIL OF BEN, used as 



* ' Pharmacographia,' pp. 106-16 ; Bentley and Trimen, i, pi. 

 50, 52, 53, 54- 



t J. Attfield, 'Pharm. Journ.,' ii (1862), pp. 445-7; H. W. 

 Batchelor, ibid.) xi (1880), p. 43. 



% Prof. Solly, op. cit. ; Smith, * Domestic Botany,' p. 462. 



Hikorokuro Yoshida in * Forestry and Forest Products,' 

 Edinburgh, 1884. 



