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20 centavos or more, on a market where the ordinary 

 nuts cost 3 or 4 centavos only. In such a case it is 

 evidently good business practice to select seed which 

 will be likely to reproduce this peculiar freak. 



Other peculiar nuts for which there is a local and 

 limited demand are those known as " Lono " in Albay, 

 which have a soft endosperm instead of a hard one such 

 as could be used well for the manufacture of copra ; 

 and the variety whose husk is sweet so that it may be 

 eaten like sugar-cane. This variety is called " Taban " 

 in Pangasinan, " Cuyamis " in Northern Mindanao, and 

 " Kalapa Tebu" in Java. Finally, the coco-nut, like 

 other palms, is valuable for decorative purposes. For 

 such use one or other of the dwarf varieties is usually 

 chosen, because these are peculiar and unusual, and 

 because of their early fruiting habit. In the island of 

 Marinduque there is a variety which has the foliage 

 as well as the nuts yellowish in colour. This variety 

 is regarded as inferior for the ordinary uses of the 

 coco-nut, but is valuable as a decorative tree. This is 

 probably the Palamcotta of Simmonds' list. 



Still other varieties are recognized in certain limited 

 localities in the Philippines. Thus in La Union, beside 

 the ordinary nuts, large and small and of various 

 colours, and the Taban already mentioned, there is a 

 variety called " Tataguden," which has a thick husk 

 used by weavers to clean their fibre. " Tutupaen " of 

 the same locality is a small nut with very thick shell. 

 These shells are beaten together and bets are placed on 

 which will break the other. An especially hard-shelled 

 nut of this variety is probably the highest priced of all 

 coco-nuts. "Lupisan" is a large nut with very thin 

 husk in the same province. A notably large number of 

 varieties are distinguished by name in the Visayan 

 island of Leyte. Among these are the Makapund, 

 already mentioned ; " Agta," characterized by nuts so 

 dark a green that they are almost black ; " Bulao," with 

 pale-brown fruit ; " Busag," which is a very pale green ; 

 " Burawis," which has both fruit and foliage a very 



