50 

 cocoanut : 



Young nut Ripe nut 

 Husk and shell 1.760 .816 



Kernel .090 .434 



Water ,300 .250 



Cocoanut oil, copra or copperah , the dry albuminous 

 pulp, contains 54.3 per cent of oil dried at 100° It yields 

 66 per cent. 



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Palmyra palm, Borasaus Flabelli fo:^mls 

 Description 



The spadlx bearing the fruits Is generally simple, and 

 covered with a single sheath or spathe, as In the areca, 

 catecha, and cocoanut palms, but It Is sometimes compotmd* and 

 bearing tv/o bunches of fruit In a compound spathe. The 

 fruits are v/lth beautiful regularity arranged round the spadlx 

 In three ways, and whichever way examined are found In nearly 

 opposite pairs. Each spadlx bears from tent to twenty fruits, 

 and one of these spadlces, with the fruit ripe, would be nearly 

 as much as a man could carry. Each palm bears seven or eight 

 of these spadlces, so that a tree often bears about one hun- 

 dred and fifty fruits in one season ; each fruit is about the 

 size of a young child's head. The fruits when young are 

 pr4tty distinctly three cornered, but when old the pulp round 

 the nut sv;ells so as to give the fruit the appearance of a 

 perfect globe. 



