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pp. 135, 136, with descriptions and illustrations of the principal 

 types of Mangoes grown in Ceylon ; " Rupee," "Jaffna," " Baittee " 

 or Bombay, " Parrot," " Mi-amba " (Honey Mango), and " Etamba" 

 (seed Mango). — " Mangoes for Export," Cousins, in Bull. Dept. 

 Agric. Jamaica, i. 1909, pp. 48-51, illustrated. 



ANACARDIUM, Rottb. 



Anacardium occidental, Linn. ; Fl. Trop. Afr. I. p. 443. 



III. — Rheede, Hort. Mai. iii. t. 54 ; Rumpf. Amb. i. t. 69 ; Plenck. 

 Ic. t. 319 ; Jacq. Icon. Select, Stirp. Am. t. 181, f . 35 (fruit) ; Tuss. 

 Ant. iii. t. 13 ; Desc, Ant, vii. t, 507 ; Diet, Sc. Nat. t. 261 ; Berg. 

 Charact. t. 73, No. 535 ; Blanco, Fl. Filip. t, 116 ; Nooten, Fl. Java, 

 t. 25 ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 163 ; Baiilon, Hist. PI. v. ff. 322-324 ; 

 Vidal, Fl. For. Filip. t. 36 B ; Kohler, Med. Pflan. iii. ; 111. Hort. 

 1885, pp. 157-159 ; Le Jard. 1889, pp. 33, 34 ; Greshoff, Nutt. Ind. 

 PL t. 2 ; Journ. Bomb. N.H. Soc. x. 1895, p. 88 ; Contr. U.S. Nat. 

 Herb. ix. t. 29 ; Freeman & Chandler, World's Comm. Prod, 

 p. 275 ; Sim, For. Fl. Port. E. Afr. t. 28. 



Vernac. names. — Kaju (Lagos, Daivodu) ; Cajueiro (Port, Angola, 

 Welwitsch). — Cashew Nut ; Cashew Apple ; Noix de Kasjoe. 



Indigenous to South America and the West Indies. Introduced 

 to Tropical Africa, Asia, and many warm countries. ♦ 



The roasted kernels are commonly eaten as dessert. The kernels 

 yield by expression about 40 per cent, of a nutritious oil, the 

 quality of which is considered equal to almond or olive oil. 



Cardol or Cashew Apple Oil is obtained from the shell of the 

 nut ; it is black, acrid and vesicant ; a good preservative for wood- 

 work, books, &c, being a good protection against white ants. 

 According to Dymock, Cardol is prepared in large quantities in 

 the Goa territory during the process of roasting the nuts, and is 

 used there for tarring boats (Pharm. Journ. [3] vii. p. 730). In 

 India it is used as an anaesthetic in leprosy and as a blister in 

 warts, corns and ulcers (Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. India). 



There is a fair amount of trade done in the nuts, and the demand 

 seems good. The exports from India during 1907 amounted to 

 8,507 cwts., valued at about R. 2 lakhs. The chief customers were 

 France and the United Kingdom (Trop. Agric. Ceylon, 1908, p. 311). 

 September and October has been advised as the best time for nuts 

 to reach Marseilles (Agric. Bull. Sir. Sett. & Fed. Malay St. 1906, 

 p. 377). Cashew Nuts are imported into Bombay from Goa in very 

 considerable quantities ; the kernels are valued at about Rs. 18 per 

 cwt. (Watt. Comm. Prod. India, p. m). 



Cashew Nuts or Cashew Kernels are charged for at the Docks as 

 Pistachio Kernels : landing bd. per cwt. ; re -weighing, re-piling or 

 re-housing "Z\d. per cwt. ; delivery to land conveyance 2$d. per 

 cwt., to water conveyance 4<1 per cwt. ; rent 6r/. per ton per week 

 (Table of Rates, &c, London & India Docks Co. 1904, p. 44). 



The tree yields a gum. A sample from S. Nigeria has 



been examined at the Imperial Institute ; it consisted of a 



mixture of small almost colourless tears, with masses of dark- 



brown or almost black gum, weighing about 2 ozs., with no 



