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Below 1,000 meters (m) the common tree species include Sterculia foetida and Calophyllum teysmannii (both of which produce oil-bearing seeds) and Aleurites moluccana.
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Patches of native forest remain around the higher peaks, and are characterized by Metrosideros, Aleurites, Celastrus vitiensis, Myrsine, Ixora, Psychotria, Cantium barbatum, and Charpentiera.
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The terrestrial vegetation is still largely pristine, with very few exotics, although there are two substantial coconut groves at the principal landing sites, and Cordyline terminals and Aleurites moluccana have also been deliberately introduced, and Achyranthes aspera accidentally.
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Lowland forest remains only in valleys and on scattered low mountain slopes where Inocarpus fagifer, bamboo (Schizostachyum glaucifolium), Cananga odorata, Rhus taitensis, Pisonia umbellifera, introduced Aleurites moluccana, Macaranga sp.,
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Aleurites moluccana, Ficus theophrastoides, areas of bamboo (Bambusa spp.), and the gymnosperms Podocarpus neriifolius, a cycad (Cycas seemannii), and Gymnostoma vitiense.
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LYNCH, S.J. (1944) Notes on some newer hard-drying vegetable oils from Aleurites trisperma Blanco and Garcia nutans Rohr.
Chapter 5 1953
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THE CANDLE NUT TREE (_Aleurites triloba_, of Foster) grows in the
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At the Feejee and Hawaian islands, the seeds of the castor oil plant and of the candle-nut tree (_Aleurites triloba_) are strung together and used for candles.
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_Argemone mexicana_, which is used for lamps and in medicine; and from the seeds of the cashew nut (_Anacardium occidentale_), from _Sapindus marginatus_, and the country walnut (_Aleurites triloba_.)
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A little farther on, and the graceful bamboo sends up its slender stalk to a great height, mingling its dark, glossy foliage with the silvery leaves of the kukui, or candle-nut (_Aleurites moluccana_); these together form a striking contrast to the black walls which rise in such sullen grandeur on each side.
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