136 THE WHOLE ART OF RUBBER-GROWING 



in the hot sandy loams of the coconut shores of 

 Ceylon, India and Java, and the island north of New 

 Guinea. 



Blikrodea Tonkinensis. Discovered five years ago, 

 the Blikrodea, which is indigenous to the whole of 

 Indo-China, has become one of the most important 

 of the inferior rubbers imported into France. The 

 tree lends itself to ready cultivation, and the Ton- 

 kinese have already planted large areas with it, in 

 the hope and expectation of making Blikrodea rubber 

 one of the chief products of the country. 



Mangabeira. The home of this plant is South- 

 East Brazil, where it is exploited on a large scale. 

 It is a low-grade rubber, but is in great demand for 

 the manufacture of overshoes, cheap macintoshes, 

 etc. America consumes nearly the whole of the 

 output of Mangabeira. 



