As a garden plant only, yielding seeds which are useful for 

 feeding home poultry, its propagation can be encouraged but 

 not as a regular oil seed crop. 



411. Anacardium occidentale (cashew-nut , or hijli 

 badam). Originally a native of South America, this tree has 

 established itself in the coast forests of India, in the Contai 

 Sub-division of Midnapore, in Orissa, in Chittagong and in 

 Madras. A weak solution of the gum of this plant which 

 is very slightly soluble in water may be used as a preventive 

 against the attack of insects. To this may be added a little 

 asafcetida and a little aloe to make it more effective. The 

 juice issuing from the bark is used as an indelible marking 

 ink like bhela-\\\ii juice. The bark is used for tanning. 

 The ripe fruit is eaten. The pericarp of the seed which is 

 partly outside the fruit, contains an acid oil, black in colour, 

 which is a good preventive against white ants and which is 

 used for tanning or colouring boats and fishing lines and 

 fishing nets, like the mesocarp of the gab fruit. The kernels 

 of the seed are delicious eating, and about 40 per cent, of an 

 oil which is equal to almond oil and superior to olive oil ob- 

 tained from the kernels. 



412. Amoora rohituka (Pittaraj). The oil from the 

 seed of this tree is used in some parts of Northern and East- 

 ern Bengal as a lamp oil. The seeds are fried and bruised, 

 then boiled with water, when the oil floats on the top. The 

 timber is good but little used. 



413. Nim seed being very common, the value of nim oil 

 as an antiseptic and anthelmintic veterinary medicine, and of 

 nim oil-cake as a fertiliser containing 5 to 54 per cent, of 

 N and about \\ of PgOs, should be here mentioned. The oil 

 can be painted on young cocoa-nut and other trees to protect 

 them against insect pests. Nim bark is nearly as effective 

 in the treatment of intermittent fever as cinchona or arsenic. 

 In a district where nim trees are plentiful the crushing of 

 the nim seed for oil and oil-cake may be taken up as a 



