188 IV. OILY COMPOUND COxMBUSTIBLES.— 



Oil of vernicia Montana. From the kernels, yellow, used 

 as a varnish. 



Oil of Bryonia callosa. Used for the lamp. 



Margosa oil. From the fruit of Meha azederachta, bitter, 

 vermifuge. 



HuiLE d''ooli. From ooli, a plant that grows in the Antilles ; 

 sold for oil of ben. 



VEGETABLE BUTTERS. 



Boiled oil of bays, Oleum laurinum verum, O. lauri nohilis. 

 From bay berries, by boiling, thick like butter, green : from 

 Italy. 



Butter of laurus glauca. Used for candles, obtained by 

 expression. 



Oil of avocado pear. Stomachic. 



Myrtle oil, Mi/rteum. From myrtle berries ; concrete, odo- 

 riferous, astringent. 



Java tallow ? Mava butter. Expressed from Bassia buty- 

 racea, white, used for making soap. 



Butter of bassia longifolia. Greenish yellow. 



Mackav^ fat. From the nuts of Cocos fusiformis. 



Tallow of lits.«a sebifera. Used for candles. 



Butter of the choorie tree. Used as butter in India. 



Nutmeg butter. Floats on the surface of the water in the 

 still when nutmegs are distilled for their oil, insipid. 



Palm oil, Oleum pahnce, O. palmcB sebaceum, O. cocois buty- 

 racecB. Yellow, butyraceous, sweet scented, does not change 

 colour when mixed with an alkali ; used for food, and in emul- 

 sions as a demulcent ; externally it is peculiarly emollient, and 

 well adapted for ointments. 



Oil of mace in cakes, Banda soap. Oleum macis in massis. 

 Is cut out of the jars of oil of mace when it is discoloured and 

 grown solid by age. 



B ANKARA buttkr. From a not well-known nut. 



Butter of cacao, Buty rum cacao. From the kernels of the 

 chocolate nut by boiling ; keeps well ; used for food : 41b. of nuts 

 yield about lib. 



American green wax, Ceraviridis. Obtained from Myrica 

 cerifera, and other species of myrica ; by boiling the berries in 

 water, they yield one-fourth of their weight of wax ; used to make 

 sweet-scented candles, and also for the darker ointments and plais- 

 ters, instead of bees'* wax : from the United States. 



