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and 60 per cent, of kernels. The oil gave 60 per cent, of liquid oil and 40 
per cent, of white solid fat. Seeds from Northern Nigeria contained 33 4 per 
cent, of oil. Meggitt (1907) obtained 25 65 per cent, of oil in the sweet variety 
and 22-62 per cent. In the bitter variety. 
Lewkowitsch expressed the seed in two stages and obtained a cold pressed 
and a hot pressed oil The examination of these two oils gave the following 
numbers : Specific gravity at 40°, 0 9018, 0 8984 ; acid value, 49 71, 100'5 ; 
saponification value, 179'5, 178 7 ; unsaponifiable matter, 1 67, 2 69 per cent. ; 
iodine value, 100 3, 88 ; titer test of fatty acids, 32°, 38 2°. 
Ben oil is said to consist of the glycerides of oleic, palmitic and stearic 
acids and of a solid acid of high melting point, probably arachidic acid. (Agri- 
cultural Ledger for 1911-12 No. 5 p. 136) 
337 . M. Concanensis, Nimvio. h.f.b.i., ii . 45 . 
This may possibly be the red-flowered species, alluded 
to by Roxburgh 'II 308), as occurring near Maldah (FI. Br. 
Ind.). 
Vern. : — Mooah (Sind.); Sainjnah (Raj. ; Con.). 
Habitat : — Rajputana, on dry hills, Sindh and the Concan. 
A tree, glabrous except the young parts and the inflores- 
cence. Bark thick, soft, corky. Wood while, soft, Pores huge, 
often sub-divided, enclosed in white rings, scanty. Medullary 
rays fine, numerous, the distance between them less than the 
diameter of the pores (Gamble . Leaves generally bipinnate, 
very rarely tripinnate, reaching 1£ ft. long. Primary pairs 
5-6, distant, 4-8in. long, the primary rhachis thickened at the 
base as well as the secondary articulation, with a gland at 
each articulation. Leaflets 4-6 pair, with an odd one, broadly 
elliptic or sub-orbicular, obtuse at both ends, often retuse at 
the apex, of variable size, §-lg by £-1 in., pale beneath, 
articulated, with a slender petiole in. long ; nerves 4-8 pair, 
slender, distinct. Flowers in lax divaricate, thinly pubescent 
panicles, reaching ft- long, pedicels in. long, articulated 
with the flower ; bracts minute, caducous. Flowering time. 
October to December. Calyx thinly tomentose, about in. 
long ; segments white, oblong, reflexed. Petals yellow, veined 
with red, oblong, or oblong-spathulate, the lower about fin. 
long. Stamens 5-fertile and 4-5 stammodes ; filaments hairy at 
base. Capsule straight, acutely triquetrous, .slightly constricted 
between the seeds 1-1£ ft. long ; valves hard, s-f in. broad. 
