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One per cent. osmic acid was used to show the distribution of the 
oil, Chlorophyll solution and alkanna solution were used for com- 
parison, the staining being carried out rapidly to avoid dispersal of 
the oil by the spirit. 
There appear to be four or more varieties of rice among the 
samples. This might account for different amounts of oil being 
found, even in samples with intact aleurone layer. 
Two suggestions may be made as a result of the examination :— 
(1.) Can parboiling be advantageous in killing any mites, &c., 
present ? 
(2.) It may be possible that the excrement of the mites con- 
tains poisonous compounds, which would be injurious, if 
the powdery excrement were cooked with the rice. 
L. A. B. 
in having longer, more rigid and more persistent leaves, -yellow- 
green male flowers, and larger purple cones. Seeds of this Pine 
were first sent to Edinburgh in 1852, having been collected by J. 
Jeffrey in the Shasta Valley, North California. The drawing has 
been prepared from a tree grown at Kew. onia modica, Stapf, 
was first described last year in the Kew Bulletin from material sent 
to Kew by Mr. J. Anderson, and collected by him in the Gold 
Coast Colony. It flowered for the first time at Kew in September, 
1908. Itis a small-growing species, almost stemless, with peltate 
leaves, and small yellow flowers having two sepals and no petals. 
Sorbus cuspidata, Hedlund, is, from the size of its leaves and 
flowers, the finest of all the Whitebeams in cultivation, but though 
an old inhabitant of gardens in this country, having been introduced 
nearly eighty years ago, it is rarely seen of large size. In the 
Temperate Ht 
large dimensions. The plate was prepared from a tree purchased 
from Messrs. Fisher, Son & Sibray, in 1904, under the name of 
Pyrus Aria himalaica, Prunus japonica, Thunb., from China and 
macrophylla, Wall., is distributed 
country. The same plant was descri 
C. brachypoda, an 3 I : 
Wallich’s a which belongs to a species with opposite leaves, to 
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