of 150 bags of various qualities was despatched to London in 
December, 1886. The bark weighed 17,009 pounds and was sold 
for £542 9s. There has been no export since that time. 
"Mr. Thomson retired on pension in 1878, and in December, 
1879, the Department was placed under the Directorship of 
Mr. (now Sir) D. Morris. After the appointment of Mr. D. Morris 
m 1886 as Assistant Director of the Royal Gardens, Kew, the 
Department was placed under the charge of the present Director, 
Mr. W. Fawcett, of the Natural History Department of the British 
Museum. 
"In the report of the Royal Finance Commissioners this 
Department is mentioned as follows :— 
" ' In a purely agricultural country like Jamaica a well organized 
Department of Gardens and Plan; We , not only 
mg and propagating such plants as are most suitable 
LJwi ? ate and S011 ' but also for the dissemination of the 
-land to the 
i- 71% lv f ° Und that this Department has done good 
'' Y ' th v l'"? ]; «-/'lM^viation ,>f rh, ..ppMvu.Mities afforded 
in it i> spreading fast. 
VtITm ^Pftment of P^lic Gardens and Plantations issue* a 
Monthly Utlh- Q , lfl „;,.';.; 
and on the diseases , 1 
The Bulletin is supplied^ YSXto'™ d«' I 'in t h, \ hmi 
^XZJF* «** * ^ ^eminatlo,! J' \;,!- P LK 
X.-BAMBARRA GROUND-NUT, 
{Voandzeia subterranea, Thou) 
tl..-..i,«lx..i,r Tropi-al Africa f r n xl "^ * r,, "^-mit. Cultivated 
»>;* n«, pn -eminent claim to he P la t wMcTl t0 ***** Bamb&rra 
;', n:im ;: ''■»»»'* in different parts ' 7 th* ?- * gr6at VaHety 
V ""V r «^t it i, ;l(miug or i^ei^hV, e? ntin ent. On the 
Angola vielo, in Unvofo m^Z f 2 .' in Bornu mgangala, in 
N fS^ d Utl °- ^ y th e Mofamt'o^ 011 ' Kili ™nja?o puo in 
called mjugu nyasa, Voand~lfaT3 e COast where ^rachis is 
Particularly 
