OILS AND OIL-SEEDS, ETC. 139 



SABOTAGED. 



Argania Sideroxylon, R. and S., of Morocco, yields 

 from its kernels an oil, known as ARGAN OIL, resem- 

 bling Olive Oil.* 



Bassia latifolia, Roxb., the MAHWA, besides its 

 saccharine flowers, yields 33 per cent, of a butter from 

 its seeds, used in India as food, and now imported for 

 soap and candle making. It was not in commerce in 

 i85i.f It is said to equal Cocoa-nut Oil. 



B. Parkii, G. Don. ^ Butyrospermum, Kotschy) 

 yields from its kernels SHEA BUTTER, of which from 

 300 to 500 tons are exported annually from Sierra 

 Leone, for soap-making. In the manufacture, from 

 5 to 75 P er cent, of a hydrocarbon, ' Gutta Shea/ is 

 extracted. This, also, is a recent introduction. % 



OLEACE^:. 



Olea etiropcea, L., the OLIVE, long naturalized all 

 round the Mediterranean, before mentioned (p. 60, 

 supra], yields from its ripe fruits nearly 70 per cent, 

 of the valuable non-drying OLIVE OIL. 23,450 tuns, 

 of 252 gallons each, were imported in 1882. The 

 finest, or ' Lucca Oil,' from Lucca, Florence, Leghorn 

 and Genoa, is used in salads ; the less pure kinds, 

 with soda, form Castile soap, and are used in dressing 

 woollen, and for lubricating machinery. 



* D. Hay, ' Pharm. Journ./ ix (1878), p. 262, and ibid.,* 

 (1879), p. 127. 



f Prof. Solly, op. tit. ; ' Encyclop. Brit./ loc. tit. 



J ' Kew Museum Guide,' and op. sup. tit. ; Smith, ' Domes- 

 tic Botany,' p. 317. 



' Pharmacographia,' p. 374 ; Bentley and Trimen, iii., pi. 

 172. 



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