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

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