214 



Crop, Williams, with an Appendix: " Soy Bean as Food for Man," 

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Abstract in Agric. Newj, Barbados, 1908, p. 403. "The Soya or 



Soy Bean, in Queensland Agric. Journ. xvi. 1906, pp. 546-547, abstract 

 from " The Sova (or Sov) Bean," MacMillan, in Trop. Agric. Ceylon, 



xxv. 1905, pp. 682-683.- "Utilisation of Soy Bean," in Bull. Imp. 



Inst. 1907, pp. 86-87. Soy Bean Varieties, Ball, U.S. Dept. Agiic. 



Bureau PL Industry, Bull. No. 98, 1907, pp. 1-28, illustrated. ■ 



" Glycine Soja, Soy Bean," in Comm. Prod. India, Watt, pp. 564-565. 



"The Soy or Soya Beans (Glycine hispida)" in Tropical Life, 



Nov. 1909, p. 181. Cultivation and Uses of Soya Beans, Edie, Inst. 



Comm. Res. in the Tropics, Liverpool, Bull. No. 1, 1909, pp. 1-7.- 



Soy Beans, Piper & Nielson, U.S. Dept. Agric. Farmers' Bull. No. 



372, 1909, pp. 1-26. "Cultivation and Utilization of the Soy 



Bean," in Bull. Imp. Inst. vii. 1909, pp. 308-314, with analysis of 



Seed and Oil. "Beans," in Dip. and Cons. Report Ann. No. 4386, 



1909, Trade of China, pp. 57-58. " Soya Bean Traffic," in U.S. 



Cons. Rep. Washington, Dec. 1909, pp. 65-67. "Soya Beans or 



China Oil Beans," in Some New Feeding Stuffs and their Relative 

 Value as Cattle Foods, Smetham ; Reprint, Ann. Journ. Royal Lan- 

 cashire Agric. Soc. 1909, pp. 4-7. " Export Trade of North 



Manchuria in Wheat and Beans," Board of Trade Journ. 22nd July, 



1909, p. 180. "Bean Crop of Manchuria," I.e. 26th Aug. 1909, 



pp. 423-424. " Die Soja-Bohne," Der Tropenpflanzer, xiii. 1909, 



pp. 388-390. " The Soy Bean," Jones, in Agric. News, Barbados, 



1909, p. 222. " Soya Bean Trade of Manchuria," Board of Trade 



Journal, 3rd Feb. 1910, pp. 233-234. " Soy Beans and Soy Bean 



Oil {Glycine hispida) : Can Soya Bean be used for Paint-making," 



Tropical Life, Feb. 1910, p. 25. " Soya Bean Crisis : Rise in Price 



and Short Crop Cause of Financial Disturbance," Williams, in U.S. 



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ERYTHRlNA, Linn. 



Erythrina indica, Lam. Encycl. ii. p. 391. 



A tall deciduous tree. Bark grey, covered with small prickles, 

 ultimately falling off. Leaflets entire, glabrous. Flowers bright 

 scarlet, in dense racemes. Pod torulose, 6-12 in. long, 3-8 seeded. 

 Seeds, black or brown. 



Ill— Rheede, Hort. Mai. vi. t. 7 ; Wight, Ic. PI. Ind. or. t. 58. 



Indian Coral Tree ; Mochi Wood (India, Watt) ; Moorka Tree or 

 Mootchie Wood (India, Wight). 



Lagos, Botanic Station. Common in India, Burma, Malay 

 Peninsula and Polynesia, &c. 



In India the bark is used in dyeing and tanning, and medicinally 

 as a febrifuge, &c. The fresh juice of the leaves is used as an 

 injection into the ear for the relief of earache and as an anodyne in 

 toothache. The tender leaves are eaten in curry, and the leaves 

 used as cattle fodder (Diet. Econ. Prod. India). 



The wood is light and soft, weight 18-26 lbs. per cubic foot, 

 fairly durable ; used for making scabbards, sieve frames, planking, 

 jars for household purposes, and boxes to be covered with lacquer 

 (Gamble, Man. Ind. Timb. p. 242) ; poles of palanquins and cata- 

 marans (Diet. Econ. Prod. India). 



