298 ABOUT INDIAN FOREST MATTERS. [Feb. 



Forester, the worl^; of] organizing the class at Cooper's Hill College 

 will prohahly keep Dr. Schlich in England for a year or two, 

 during which time Mr. Eibbentrop, Conservator of Forests in the 

 Punjab, will act for him. 



The Helopeltis, etc. ix Cevlox. — The red spider {Tctranychus 

 hioculatus of some) and mosquito blight {Hdopdtis Ccntonii) 

 threaten to be the, jvorst enemies -of the Ceylon new tea industry; 

 consequently the Tropical Agriculturist gives many columns to 

 their discussion. It is thought that in ten years the price of tea 

 will be so low that only large crops and low expenses will enable 

 producers to keep the field, and in this respect Ceylon has a 

 decided advantage. 



At Dimbula and lindula, an old planter reports the coffee trees 

 without fungus, but there were few fruits among bright foliage. 

 Thirty years ago, a single primary branch of three years' old coffee 

 yielded five hundred ripe cherries, thirty-five of which were plucked 

 from the base of one pair of leaves. But with sufficient capital, 

 cinchona and tea will yield larger profits than in those old times, 

 when, ere blight came, forty thousand people made a comfortable 

 living. 



CixcHOXA - GKOWIXG IX Java. — The Government cinchona 

 enterprise in Java appears from the annual report to have been 

 successful in 1883. Grafting Ledger iana scions on Succiruhrct stocks 

 under double glass is energetically and successfully pursued. 

 Siicciruhra is grown in Java, not only for the yield of druggists' 

 bark aflbrded, but also for grafting purposes, and for supplying 

 officers of the Forest Department with shelter plants for the more 

 delicate timber-tree seedlings. 



A Corkectiox.- — Mr. Jackson of Kew points out that Andaman 

 marble-wood, exhibited at the late Edinburgh Forestry Exhibition, 

 is not furnished by Dio&pijros quccsita, hut by D. Kurzu. Hiern. 

 Gamble, in his Manual of Indian Timlcrs, describes the tree as 

 an evergreea, with very thin, smooth grey hark, and handsome 

 wood, streaked with black and grey. It is used for cabinet work, 

 and should be better known as a substitute for the Ceylon Cala- 

 mander wood, which it much resembles. In the Andamans it is 

 used for handles and sheaths of blades, as well as for furniture. 

 The tree grows in the Andaman Islands and Nicobars. These facts 

 have been pointed out in the new guide to the Kew Museum. 

 Biospgros quecsiici, Thw., is the true Calamander, or Coromauder 

 wood, and is a large tree of Ceylon, now scarce, though the wood is 

 in great demand for ornamental articles and inlaying. 



Eecent Ixtkoductioxs at Goveknmext Botanic Gardens. — 

 From the report of tlie Government Botanical Gardens at Saharaupur 



