Frequently adulterated with cheaper oils.

    Annual imports and consumption.

  Almond oil.

  Sesame, or teel Oil.

    Various species cultivated in the East.

    Large exports of the seed from India; native oil mills;
    processes of expression and manufacture.

    Sunflower oil.

    Margose, or Neem oil.

    Illepe oil.

    Vegetable butter.  Candle nut tree.

    Colza oil.

  Vegetable wax.

    The Candleberry myrtle.

    The castor oil plant:  manufacture of the oil in the
    East and West Indies.

    Extent of the imports annually.

    The oil-cake for manure.

    Kanari oil.

  The coco-nut palm:  description of the tree; its various
    and important uses.

    Varieties of this palm met with.

    Wide range of the plant.

    Directions for its culture; profits derived from
    plantations; great attention paid to them in Ceylon.

    Commercial value of its products.

    Statistics of culture in Pinang.

    Natural enemies of the tree.

    Copperah and Poonac.

    Statistical returns connected with its products in
    Ceylon.

    Imports and consumption of coco-nut oil.

    Comparison of the consumption of the chief vegetable
    oils of commerce.

    The value and uses of oil-cake for cattle-feeding.

  Volatile, or essential oils:  description of the most
    important.

    Oil of peppermint.

    Process of obtaining the perfumed oils.

    Cultivation of Roses in the East and preparation of
    Attar.  Lemon-grass oil.

    Citronella oil.

    Patchouly.

  Saponaceous plants.

SECTION VI.—­DRUGS, INCLUDING NARCOTICS AND OTHER MEDICINAL SUBSTANCES

  The coca plant. Cocculus Indicus.

  BETEL LEAF.

  The ARECA PALM; extensive use of the nuts in the East
  as a masticatory.

    Narcotic properties.

    Catechu, or Cutch; its astringent properties.

    Davy’s analysis.

    Value of the Areca nuts exported from Ceylon.

    The POPPY:  increasing consumption of Opium in this
    country.

    Production of the Drug in India.

    Large revenue derived therefrom.

    Variety of the poppy grown; system of culture pursued.

    Various modes of consuming opium.

    Its preparation and manufacture described.

    Commercial varieties met with.