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INDEX 



Climate, tropical, 1-15 



effect of, on animals, 10, 11 

 on man, 11-15 

 on plants, 7-10 

 Gitandra, 201 

 Clove nutmeg, 251 

 Clove oil, 287 

 Cloves, 248 

 Cocaine, 216 



Cochineal production, 347 

 Cocoa, 78, 79 

 Cocoa butter, 78, 281 

 Coconut butter, 60 

 Coconut desiccated and shredded, 



61 

 Coconut oil, 60 

 Coconuts, 56-63 



fertilizers for, 59 



planting of, 58 



statistics about, 63 



varieties of, 57 



world's production of, 57 

 Cocos nucifera, 56 

 Codeine, 218 

 Coffea arabica, 64 



excelsa, 69 



liberica, 64 



robusta, 64 



stenophylla, 69 

 Coffee, 64-69 ' 



culture of, 66 



leaf blight of, 65 



roasting of, 67 

 Cohune oil, 283 

 Coir, 61 



Coix lachryma, 147 

 Cola acuminata, 80 

 Cold storage, for avocado, 114 



of tropical fruits, 30 

 Colocasia, 155 

 Commelina nudiAora, 318 

 Commerce in tropical products, 



29-34 

 Cooking bananas, 91 

 Cooperative associations, 39 



Copaiba balsam, 220 



Copal resin, 211 



Copernicia cerifera, 213 



Copra, 60 



Coral sand soils, 19 



Corchorus, 169 



Cordyline terminalis, 159 



Coriander, 245 



Cork, 297 



Corkwood, 297 



Corozo, 297 



Cotton, 167-169 



Cottonseed oil, 271 



Cowpeas, 308 



Criollo cacao, 75 



Crocus sativus, 238 



Crops affected by climate, 7-10 



Crotalaria as cover crop, 26 



Crotalana juncea, 182 



saltiana, 310 

 Croton eleutheria, 288 

 Croton oil, 227 



Cryptostegia grandiAora, 178, 201 

 Cuba bast, 181 

 Cubeb oil, 288 

 Cubebs, 219 



Cultivation of tropical soils, 24-28 

 Cummin, 245 

 Cummin oil, 288 

 Curcuma, 251, 252 

 Curry powder, 245 

 Custard apples, 128 

 Cutch, 229 

 Cycas circinalis, 149 

 Cyperus papyrus, 186 



tegetiformis, 186 



Dairying, 323 

 Dammar resin, 211 

 Dammara australis, 211 

 Dasheens, 155 

 Date palm, 109-111 

 Deccan hemp, 180 

 Devil's cotton, 184 

 Dioscorea alata, 153 



