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ever since ihe unfortunate affairs at Sudiya. Before the 

 transfer of the Tea tracts in this countrj can be made, it will 

 be necessary, injustice to all parties, to know if Muttuck is, 

 or is to become ours or not. The natives at present are per- 

 mitted to cultivate as much land as they please, on paying a 

 poll-tax of two rupees per year ; so that if the country is not 

 ours, every man employed on the Tea will be subject to be 

 called on for two rupees per annum, to be paid to the old 

 Bura Senaputy's son, as governor of the country. This point 

 is of vital importance to our Tea prospects up here. Many 

 individuals might be induced to take Tea grounds, were they 

 sure that the soil was ours, and that they would be protected 

 and permitted to cultivate it in security. 



" In looking forward to the unbounded benefit the discovery 

 of this plant will produce to England, to India, — to millions, 

 I cannot but thank God for so great a blessing to our coun- 

 try. When I first discovered it, some fourteen years ago, I 

 little thought that I should have been spared long enough to 

 see it become likely eventually to rival that of China, and that 

 I should have to take a prominent part in bringing it to so 

 successful an issue. Should what I have written on this new 

 and interesting subject be of any benefit to the country, and 

 the community at large, and help a little to impel the Tea for- 

 ward to enrich our own dominions, and pull down the haughty 

 pride of China, I shall feel myself richly repaid for all the 

 perils and dangers and fatigues, that I have undergone in the 

 cause of British India Tea." 



Jaipore, loth June, 1839. 



XIV. — Notes on some South African Plants. By G. A. 

 Walker Arnott, Esq., LL.D. 



The following notes were principally made about two years 

 ago, and their substance communicated to my friends Sir W, 

 Hooker, and Mr Harvey. They relate almost wholly to the 

 third collection I received from Drege, and would not have 

 ^^een published had 1 not found the same names under which 



