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TALLOW TREE

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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 379 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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TALLOW
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TREE  , in
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botany, the popular name of a small
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tree, Stillingia sebifera, belonging to the
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family
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Euphorbiaceae, a native of
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China, but cultivated in
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India and other warm countries . The seeds are thickly coated with a
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white greasy abstance—so-caned
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vegetable tallow—from which candles are stoves which warmed the houses of
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parliament . On the 16th of made, and which is also used in
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soap-making and dressing
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cloth . The
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butter tree or
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tallow tree of Sierra Leone is Pentadesma butyracea, a member of the family Guttiferae . The
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fruit, which is 4 to 5 in.
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long and about 3 in. in
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diameter, has a thick fleshy rind abounding in a yellow greasy juice .

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