[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.]

[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.]
[Requisites for the successful culture of the poppy for opium.]

[The TOBACCO PLANT; species cultivated.]