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3, PROPORTION CENTESIMALE DE PULPE ET DE NOYAU DANS LE FRUIT. 
Pulpe 38:2. 
Heerehantlon +f Norton 61'8 (coque 43°5: amande 18°3). 
Pulpe 20’. 
2e échantillon : Neves 80'0 (coque 63°76: amande 16°24). 
4. COMPOSITION CENTESIMALE DE LA PULPE. 
Eau 3°29 4 4°50, matiéres grasses 77°14 4 65°48. 
5. COMPOSITION CENTESIMALE DES AMANDES. 
Eau 8°50 & 10°8, matiéres grasses 45°9 & 47°8. 
On voit que ces fruits sont d’un poids tres sensiblement 
supérieur a celui des fruits de la Cote d’Ivoire et du Dahomey. 
D’autre part, la pulpe est trés riche en matiéres grasses, mais 
la proportion de coque contenue dans les noyaux est trés 
élevée : — 
Ccques, 70°4 & 85°5 pour cent; amandes, 29°6 4 14°45 pour cent. 
Le rendement en palmistes est donc faible, et l’épaisseur de 
coques pouvant atteindre 6 mm. le concassage de noyaux est 
difficile. 
[ TRANSLATION. ] 
OIL PALM FRUITS INTHE GABOON. 
The oil palm is one of the most valuable products of the 
Gaboon, but the trade and the natives have not yet exploited 
this source of wealth to the fullest extent, and numerous 
Elaeis palms are not yet worked, even in the easily accessible 
coast regions. 
Climate and soil are extremely favourable in the Gaboon to 
the oil palm, which yields an abundance of fruit estimated at an 
average of eight to ten bunches of 12 kilograms, representing 
100 kilograms of bunches per palm per annum. These bunches. 
moreover, bear fruits which are more bulky than anywhere 
else in Africa. 
Analyses carried out on samples collected on the banks of 
the Ogoue have given the following results (/’A gronomic 
Coloniale, January 31, 1914):— 
(1) YrELD oF Fruitinc Heaps. 
Total Fresh fruits containing Dry fruits, 
weight about 20 per cent. of water 4 per cent. of water 
Kilos. Kilos. Kilos. 
Large head... 20 : _ . 9°8, or 49 per cent. 
Ordinary head = 13 . 7°8, or 60 percent.... 6°5, or 50 se 
Small head... 4°85... 2°90, or 59°7_ ,, ws -.2°4,0r 49'4,, 
” ” we 4°40 ...2°7,0or6I 4, ws .2°3, or 56°38, 
