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native varieties of cassava which are held in repute. Analysis and field 

 results will be published in this Bulletin when they are ready. 



RESULTS OF ANALYSIS. 

 (in ordeu of Staroh-Content,) 



Memorandum. 



By RoBKRT Thomson. 

 The varieties analysed were collected in various provinces of the Repub- 

 lic of Colombia last year by my son, under my instructions. These are 

 new to the West Indies. I resided many years in that Republic, and the 

 importance of this culture attracted my attention, consequent on the enor- 

 mous consumption of cassava as an article of human food — cooked in the 

 same way as Irish potatoes. Indeed some ot the varieties of Cassava, I 

 concluded, were equal in point ol flavour to that tuber. 1 was also struck 

 with the capacity of the plant to resist droughts. Poisonous varieties are 

 unknown to the people in the interior of Colombia, so that the people 

 there entertain no shadow of suspicion in this respect. 



