| Sesame oil (Sesamum indicum) | 46.7 |
| Black til, coloured variety of ditto (Verbesena sativa) | 46.4 |
| Gingelie oil (S. orientale) | 46.7 |
| Ground nuts, produced byArachis hypogœa | 45.5 |
| Wounded seeds obtained from the Poonnay-tree (Calophyttum Inophyllum), a bitter lamp oil | 63.7 |
| Karunj seeds, from thePongamia glabra | 26.7 |
| Ram til, the seeds of the nuts Ellu, orGuizotia oleifera | 35 |
| Poppy seeds (Papaver somniferum) | 43 to 58 |
| Silaam, an oil seed from Nepaul | 41 |
| Rape seed (Brassica napus) | 33 |
The foregoing are not all the seeds from which oil is extracted by the natives of the East. In addition to this there are cottonseed oil, used for their lamps. Castor oil and Argemone seed, similarly used. Oil obtained from the fruit of Melia Azadriachta, for medicine and lamps. Apricot oil in the Himalayas, sunflower oil, oil of cucumber-seed for cooking and lamps, oil of colocynth seed, a lamp oil.
The seeds of bastard saffron (Carthamus tinctorius) yield oil.
Mustard oil, the produce of various species of Sinapis, &c. Shanghae oil, from Brassica Chinensis. Illiepie oil, from Bassia longifolia, which is used for frying cakes, &c., in Madras; and Muohwa oil, from another species of the same genus in Bengal, B. latifolia. Oil is expressed from the seeds of Cæsalpina oleosperma, a native of the East. The neem tree seeds afford a very clear or bitter oil, used for burning.
Wood oil is a remarkable substance, obtained from several species of Dipterocarpus, by simply tapping the tree.
The horse-eyes and cacoons of Jamaica (Fevillea scandens) yield a considerable quantity of oil or fat, as white and hard as tallow. It has been employed for similar purposes on the Mosquito shores.
The seeds of the Argemone mexicana, and of the Sanguinaria canadensis, also contain a bland, nutritious, colorless, fixed oil. The mass from which the seed is expressed is found to be extremely nutritious to cattle.
The Camelina sativa is cultivated in Europe, for the extraction of an oil used only by the soap makers, and for lamps.
A solid oil, of a pale greenish color, a good deal resembling the oils of the Bassia in character, though rather harder, and approaching more in properties to myrtle wax, was shown at the Great Exhibition, from Singapore. It is supposed to be the produce of the tallow tree of Java, called locally "kawan," probably a species of Bassia. It is very easily bleached; indeed, by exposure to air and light, it becomes perfectly white; if not too costly, it promises to become a valuable oil.
According to Mr. Low, there are several varieties of solid oil commonly used in the Islands of the Archipelago, and obtained from the seeds of different species of Dipterocarpus.