310 



in would be as ' Biscuits,' but a little more care should be taken 

 in the preparation." Received from Mr. R. Derry, Assistant 

 Superintendent, Botanic Gardens, Singapore. 



Cocoanut Diseases—Through the courtesy of the Secretary of 

 State for the Colonies, a copy of a Memorandum on the " Cocoa- 

 nut stem-bleeding disease " by Mr. Petch, the Government 

 Mycologist of Ceylon, has been received at Kew. The fungus 

 causing the disease has proved to be Thievlaviopsis ethaceticus, 

 Went, a well-known parasite of the sugar cane in Java, Mauritius, 

 and the West Indies. The treatment which is being adopted to 

 combat the disease and which appears to be successful, consists in 

 cutting out and burning all diseased tissue ; the wound is then 

 scorched with a torch of rags dipped in oil or by some other 



means and finally covered with hot coal tar. On large estates, 



young trees are being sprayed with Bordeaux mixture to avoid 

 infection. 



ioS° m t I ie Govemment of Madras a report, No. 780, 15th March, 

 1 JOS, on the " Cocoanut Palm Disease in Travaneore " by Dr. Butler, 

 Imperial Mycologist, has been received. 



This disease appears to be due to a species of Botryodi [dodia, 



a species of which genus has caused a serious cocoanut disease in 

 Innidad. 



The character of the disease and methods of prevention are 

 discussed at length in the report. 



In The Agricultural News, Vol. VII., No. 162, p. 219, this latter 

 disease is also referred to. From the preliminary experiments of 

 Mr Rockdale, Mycologist to the Imperial Department of Agri- 

 culture West Indies, with the species of Botryodiplodia found in 

 Tnmdad, and also m British Guiana, it seems likely that this 



™? Vn* P arasi > and th ^ ^ may be able to infect the healthy 

 roots of Cocoanut palms. 



thriXw^^ 613 ? 08118 - -8 ^ 11116118 in flower ^d fruit of this, 

 from Sir n l? * n T CleS 0f ^carpus, have been received 



AzXZreX^^^ £™ Department of 



lhey were obtained from the northern 



'. W. R«ll-VC!fvr» n, i ~.C il__ T)«4„^;« 



Stitinn wK« ZZ~ZZ v J • v * ^'^on, Curator of the Botanic 



Station, ^ho reports having seen numerous plants of the species. 



^ileTS ™% I^Y^ng-smelling shrub or small tree, 

 simple or bl'tW thl £ ly coriace ™s leaves which are either 

 native 'of Mart^f 01 n five P^tely arranged leaflets. It is a 

 ^Anl^ m ff£ b ^ in Herb. Kew; 



St, John, Viecmes Puerto Ri.n ? Tty C ! uadelou Pe, Montserrat, 



tar 1 ££ ~r» Sisssssre 



Not previously recorded 



