Inventory 40, Seeds and Plants Imported. 



Plate V. 



The Lumbang (Aleurites moluccana (Lj Willdj Growing in Bahia, Brazil. 

 (See S. p. I. No. 38945.) 



An oil-nut tree growing beside the road on the plantation of Coronel Frederico da Costa at Bahia. 

 The tree has pale-green foliage and the fruits contain nutlike seeds, from which lumbang oil is 

 expressed. The kernel is somewhat poisonous, being strongly purgative in effect when eaten. 

 Lumbang oil has been largely used in the manufacture of soap and is now being investigated as 

 a possible paint oil. The tree is known in Hawaii as the kukui and as the candlenut in some 

 other parts of the world. (Photographed by Messrs. Dorsett, Shamel, and Popenoe, December 

 25, 1913; P14568FS.) 



