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the savages of New Zealand, the sandy plains of South Africa, or the 
interminable forests of America. In none of these countries have tribes 
so mixed, or so civilized, been dealt with ; and still less has there existed 
such jealousy on one part, and so timorous a nature on the other. 
It is true we have been backed with that terrible renown for fame and 
strength which extends along the foot of the mountains; but the 
English geographer, who judges of our hill influence by the undisputed 
sway we exercise over the plains of India, and attributes to it whatever 
success has attended the labours of the servant in civil employ amongst 
the rude mountaineers, little knows how far more imposing to the 
latter are the knife of the Ghorka, the bow and arrows of their own 
Rajah, or the stern guard of the inflexible Mandarin stationed at the 
snowy passes of the frontier. 
(To be continued.) 
JUTE; CORCHORUS capPsuLARIS, L. By Str WILLIAM JACKSON 
Hooker, D.C.L., F.R.S.A. 
; "Fas. Hl. 
We have in our last volume given a few particulars relative to the 
fibre of this- plant, as having been employed by the natives of India, 
and now extensively in Britain ; and we promised some further notice 
of it, together with à figure| The plant belongs to a natural family 
(Tiliacee), eminently ‘distinguished for the strong and useful fibre of 
its bark: the Lime-tree is a familiar example. Of the genus Corchorus, 
thirty-six species are enumerated by authors, chiefly inhabitants of the 
tropics or of warm countries, both in the old and in the new world. 
The generic name (xópxopos) was applied by the ancients to some — 
common potherb, and particularly to this genus, of which the most 
common and best-known species (C. olitorius) is employed as a pot- i 
herb, especially among the Jews, and hence its name Olus judaicum, 
according to Avicennes. The character of Corchorus, as given by 
M. De Candolle, is ** Cal. 5-sepalus deciduus. Pet. 5. Stam. plurima. 
Stylus subnullus. Stigmata 2-5. Capsula subuleformis aut rotunda, 
2—5-valvis, 2—5-locularis, valvis io septifer biserialia." 
Most of the species have an. e one 
species is named C. siliguosus) ; t 
