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Show Oil Bearing Tree Found. Scientific Investigation Is being made of a newly-discovered oil-bearing seed found abundantly on the Island Is-land of Catanduanes, in the Philippines. Philip-pines. It grows on a large tree and comes from a brown pear-suaped fruit that opens not unlike a cotton boll when ripe and emits the seeds. The seeds arc rough of surfaco and of a dark brownish color, about the size of a large dried prune and slightly slight-ly kidney-shaped. The tree has not yet been fully Identified, but It Is thought to belong to the genus Amoort. or Dysoxylum. Tradition shows that before the advent of petroleum pe-troleum the inhabitants of Catanduanes Catan-duanes used the oil from this seed as a luminant. |