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reports that little good can be expected from remedial measures 

 of any kind unless great care is taken to prevent the disease 

 finding an asylum on abandoned coffee. 



The cultivation of tea, cinchona, cacao, Liberian coffee, and 

 other products has latterly been greatly extended ; and it is very 

 probable that by reducing to some extent the present areas of the 

 coffee-districts and carefully cultivating the remainder, there will 

 be much more favourable results obtained by the application of 

 suitable remedies. 



On the Discovery of a Variety of the Cedar of/Lebanon on the 

 Mountains of Cyprus ; with Letter thereupon from Sir 

 Samuel Baker, F.B.S. By Sir J. D. HocJker, C.B., K.C.S.L, 



x . E . S . 



[Read November 20, 1879.] 



I take the earliest opportunity of bringing under the notice 

 of the Linnean Society the unexpected discovery of a form of the 

 Cedar of Lebanon in the mountains of Cyprus, as communicated 

 in the accompanying letter from Sir Samuel Baker addressed to 

 myself — a discovery which is the more remarkable as the botany 

 of Cyprus has been explored of late years by a botanist and col- 

 lector so distinguished as the late Theodore Kotschy, and it had 

 formerly been visited by many intelligent travellers, including 

 Sibthorp, who collected 616 species in the island. 



" Cyprus, 



24th Sept. 1879. 



" Dear Sir Joseph Hooker, 



I am about to leave this island; after nine months' agree- 

 able inquiry into all that pertains to rt. I thought I knew all the 

 varieties of trees, until, a short time ago, the old monks of Troo- 

 ditissa Monastery assured me that they considered the Scriptural 

 ' Chittim wood ! to be a species of Pine, which only exists upon the 

 mountains between the monastery of Kykcr and the town of 

 Kbrysokus. I have been over every portion of the island, ex- 

 cepting the small region of pathless and almost inaccessible moun- 

 tains alluded to. I immediately sent a trustworthy messenger 

 to find the trees, and to cut off and bring me a bough. 



11 He has returned and brought with hini some boughs of a 

 Cedar, which is the wood in question. It is exceedingly dense 



