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about 1900 tons, but this year it will be much short of that amount, 

 probably not over 1500 tons. Its present price is 22 dollars per picul 

 (133i lbs.) for good quality. 



" P.S. The principal other vegetable substances exported from here 

 are, Gambier, Camphor, Sago, Pepper, Coffee, Sugar, Sapan-wood, 

 Mangrove-bark, Nutmegs and Mace, Rattans, Canes, Cubebs, Gum 

 Benjamin, Dragon's-blood, Gamboge, Vegetable Tallow, Vegetable Wax, 

 Gum Copal, Cloves, Tapioca, Arrowroot, Eice, Cassia, Gum Elastic, 

 Seaweed, Sandal-wood, Galingals, Rhubarb, Cutch, Ginger, Teel-seed, 

 Ebony, Cocoa-nut Oil, Wood Oils, Betel-nut, Cardamoms, China-root, 

 Timber, besides others which escape my memory at present." 



MusscJda Wollmtoni. 



To the Editor of Hooker's Journal of Botany 



Sir,— Will 



3, Red Lion Square, June 26th, 1857 



Musschia Wol 



lastoni, as given in the letter of Mr. James Y. Johnson, in the June 



number. 



with 



magnificent 



largest raceme I had seen to have been &§ feet, and the breadth H feet, 

 and wishing to avoid exaggeration, it appears I feU into the opposite 

 extreme, for on measuring specimens in my possession, I find the height 

 of one raceme to have been 3 feet 4 inches, with a breadth of 2 feet 11 

 inches. Another raceme measures 4 feet in breadth, but the height is 

 somewhat less in proportion. 



I believe I have leaves fully three feet in length, and about eight 

 inches broad, but as I have not measured them I cannot speak posi- 



Musschia 



tively. 



a ravine on the south side of Madeira, one of which— an extraordinary 

 circumstance— was in full flower in the month of January. 



Tour obedient Servant, 



Nath. H. Mason. 



