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Good control of the oranberry fruitworm was obtained with derris 
and Cube sprays containing coconut oil soap.-*-Frenklin ( 144 ) . 
COPERNICIA CERIFERA Mart. Carnauba palm. 
Carnauba wax was used (Ger. patent 470,458) with an odorous in- 
secticidal material in impregnating wood to form an artificial cedar 
board or *raoth wood." — Roark ( 335 , p. 95) • 
ELAEIS spp. 
Thosea asigna van Eecke was the chief pest of oil palm in Sumatra* 
A mixture of lead arsenate and boiled linseed oil remained fairly well 
on the leaves for l\ months. Palm oil was less effective as an ad- 
hesive and when mixed with lead arsenite it showed no ovicidal effec- 
tiveness when applied at low concentrations .-Gonggri jp ( 165 ) • 
SERENOA REPENS (Bart.) Small. Saw palmetto. 
Extracts were not repellent to the Japanese beetle.— Metrger and 
Grant (277). 
PANDANACEAE 
(Screwpine Family) 
PANDANTJS TECT0R1US Parkins. Synonym: P. odorifera (Forsk.) Lyons. 
Breadfruit tree. 
The odoriferous flowers of the male trees were placed among 
clothes by women in the Moluccas (in Dutch East Indies) to repel 
clothes moths and similar insects, as well as to perfume the clothes.— 
Engelhardt ( 130) . 
PAPAVERACEAE 
(Poppy Family) 
ARGEMONE FRUTICOSA A. Gray. 
Oil extracted from this plant destroyed larvae attaoking lumber.-' 
Scar one ( 353 ). 
ARGEMONE MEXICANA L. Mexican or pricklepoppy. 
In Mysore, India, the juice was much used for itch and scabies. 
The yellow juice and cold-drawn oil of the seeds was also useful for 
scabies.— Watt (422, v. 1, pp. 308-309). 
