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Dymock); Til(Sierra Leone, Scott Elliot) ; Beniseed (Sierra Leone, 
Garrett); [Kinu Thorny (SierraLeone), N guilla, N’ gilla, Anguilla, 
Uanguilla, Ricola, Ocoto (Angola), Gergelim (Portuguese) Wel- 
witsch|; Béné, Louboungay, Diguilliny, Foré (F.W. Africa, 
Pobéguin) ; Sim-Sim, Eirawi (Sudan, Bull. Imp. Inst. xi. 1913, 
p. 56); Sim-Sim (Zanzibar, Kew Bull. 1892, p. 90); Chitowe (Port. 
E. Afr. Johnson; Katunga, Scott); Mafuta (Mozambique, 
Negreiros); Voahazo (Madagascar, À eckel); Kunjit (Afghan- 
istan, Aitchison); Ajonjoli (Porto Rico, Cook & Collins); Ajonjoli 
(Cuba. Baker); Hsiang Yu (Ssuchuan, China, Hosie ; Gingili 
(India, Watt); Goma (Japan, Nagai); Chi-ma (China, Smith). 
—Palaver Sauce Plant (Sierra Leone). 
Believed to be a native of Tropical Africa; widely spread in the 
Tropies and Sub-Tropics. 
he chief use of this plant is the produetion of oil from the 
seed, used everywhere for food, also for soap-making and as a sub- 
stitute for olive oil. In India, used occasionally for lighting, for 
anointing the body, in medicine, perfumery, and in making sweet- 
meats; the seeds are also made into sweetmeats, and, toasted and 
ground, they are made into cakes, etc; a lotion, made from the 
leaves and a decoction of the root, is used as a hair wash; and the 
stalks are used as fuel and as manure (Dict. Econ. Prod. India). 
The cake made from the residue after the extraction of the oil is 
an important cattle food. 
The exports of seed from Northern N igeria were, in 1912, 
1,058,319 lb., value £2972; 1913, 2,118,195 lb., value £9245, 
the approximate local purchasing price being £7 per ton (Col. Rep. 
Ann. No.. 821, 1914, p.93). Marseilles is perhaps the most impor- 
tant centre of the trade in Europe, to which port the quantity of 
seed consigned from India alene is approximately 700,000 tons 
annually. 
The price of Beni seed from West Africa, in the Liverpool 
Market, July, 1914, was £17 per ten, and in July, 1915, £15— 
£15 10s. per ton. 
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seeded " and “white seeded "; the white may vary from pure 
white to pink or red; the oil from the black seed is more suitable 
food. $ 
e seed may be sown broadcast or in rows 1-1} ft. apart, and 
Ref— Sesame Seed (Sesamum indicum),’’ in Trop. Agricul- 
ture, Simmonds, pp. 412-415 (E. & F. N. Spon, London, 1877).—— 
