Tallow Tree
the Stillingia sebifera, a native of China. The leaves are rhomboidal, tapering at the tip, with two glands at the top of the petiole. The fruits are about half an inch in diameter, and have three seeds, which are covered by a kind of wax used in China, for making candles, whence the name tallow tree. They are boiled in large TALLOW TREE cauldrons, then sufficiently bruised to enable the fat to be removed without breaking the seeds, and pressed. The with bees' wax to prevent them from melting in hot weather. The wood is hard, and used for printing blocks, and the leaves for dyeing black. Also Vateria indica, a native of the Malabar coast, which yields white dammer. er.