TEINIDAD. ^ 



ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS. 



BTJXiljETIN 



OF 



ttfarnmtiati. 



No. 5. JANUARY, 1896. Vol. 11. 



CONTENTS. 



156.— Cricket Grounds and Tennis Lawns. 



157.— Adnie or Ardrne.—Cyperus articulatus. 



158.— Garden Seats. 



159. — A Fodder Grass. — Pennisetum orientah. 



160.—" Tabasheer." 



161.— Natural History Notes : 



No. 23. — Termes tenuis, Hagen. 

 ,, 24. — Cutiterehra fimehris, Austen. 

 162. — Latania Borbonica. — Livistona chinensis. 

 163. — Lignum Vitae. — Giiaiacum officinale, L. 

 164. — Ginger. — Zingiber officinale, L. 

 165. — Fibre from Gru-gru. — Acrocomia sclerocarpa. 

 166. -Circular Notes : 



No. 26.— Grafting the Mango — Lectures on 



Coffee Cultivation. 

 „ 27.— Silica in Grasses, 

 ,, 28.— Sugar Cane Seedlings. 



OQ 



167.— Analysis of Garden Soil. 



168.— Castor Oil Manufacture (Extract). 



169.— Botanical Notes : 



No. 1. — Polypodium trinidadensis, Jen., n. sp. 



,, 2. — Cynometra trinitCTisis, Oliver, n. sp. 



,, 3, — Asphnium nidus, var. B., Mett. 



,, 4. — Trichopilia hymenantha, Bchb. f. 

 170. — The Loquat. — EHobotrya Japonica, Lindl. 

 171.— Giant Cactus.— Cerews peruvianus. 

 172. — Shallots. — Allium ascallonium, L. 

 173.— The Ground ^^xt.—Arachis hypogea, L. 



Edited by the Superintendent Royal Botanic Gardens, 

 J. H. HAET, F.L.S. 



TRINIDAD : 

 PRINTED AT THE GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE, PORT-OF-SPAIN. 



1896. 



