BOTANICAL INFORMATION. 253 
rind in riband-like pieces, which he lays upon the stool; and when one 
is completed, he puts it aside, a cylinder of pith of exquisite whiteness. 
No. 8. (Tab. IX.) Here we see an entire stem or cylinder of pith, and 
one cut into trunchcons a foot or more in length. One of these a man 
lays upon a stool, and, with a long-bladed knife, inserted a little way into 
the surface longitudinally, he turns the truncheon round and round, till 
a sheet, probably two feet or more in length, is, as it were, spirally 
cut through, in the same way as thin sheets or plates of ivory are cut 
from the tusk of an elephant. These sheets our Chinaman lays one 
upon top of the other, on the ground. 
No. 9. A man is laying out the sheets in low piles on a large table. 
No. 10. A man is engaged in placing the “ Rice-paper” in bales, 
and eording them. 
No. 11, the last drawing, shows the last process : viz., packing the 
sheets in a chest for exportation. 
We may observe that the drawings are of good execution, the 
countenances of the men well and even beautifully done. The per- 
spective, as usual with the Chinese, is far from good, and, were we to 
judge from the largest specimens we have received of the cylinders 
of pith, and the largest of the sheets in our Museum, the diameter 
of the stems is represented much too bulky in proportion to the size of 
the human figures. Our stems (deprived of the outer coat, or all 
but the pith), do not exceed the size of three fingers' breadth in dia- 
meter: so that but for the drawing at No. 5, showing two men 
engaged in the carrying three stems, we should be disposed to think 
the cylinders and stems in the drawings (shown in our two — 
exaggerated. We trust, however, our friends in China, especially at 
Amoy, will not allow us long to remain in ignorance of the aires 
Jüce-paper plant. 
HERBARIUM oF M. BARNEOUD. 
Dr. Marius Barnéoud, author of a monography of Piedini and 
of other works, is desirous of parting with his herbarium, which 
consists of 6,000 species, of chosen specimens, and in the best pre- 
servation, carefully arranged, according to the natural families, in 
pasteboard cases. This herbarium represents nearly completely the 
Flora of continental France, amongst which are the types of the 
Provençal floras of Perreymond and Robert, and contains a fine 
collection of Corsican, Algerian, and Mediterranean floras. Letters 
