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Here lies the reason why cake from Indian seed is more or less 
condemned. It must be confessed that the product is not sent 
into the market in the best condition ; and moreover the practice 
detrimental. 
Obviously, then, the sooner the crop finds its way into the oil- 
and now at Chinde in the Zambesi delta, all places with an 
increasing output, indicates the possibility of the extension of 
c 
in this direction. The big importation of undecorticated ground- 
nuis into Marseilles in 1898 (p. 187) while showing the demand, 
is probably an effect of this. 
The Chamber of Commerce of Pondicherry aware of the 
in their trade—for not only has the acreage under the 
of Madras is moving in the same direction. It has been noticed 
that fields sown with seed imported from the Mozambique coast 
have produced satisfactory results while neighbouring crops sown 
with Indian seed have been very poor. More experiments are 
needed; in the absence of any certain estimate of the relative 
values of different races it is impossible to foretell what the 
results will be. 
I. HENRY BURKILL. 
Il.—MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 
appointed, on the recommendation of Kew, y 
State for Foreign Affairs, Assistant Curator of the Botanic Station, 
bbe, Uganda. : 
Mr. ALFRED Evans, a member of the gardening staff of the 
Ro: iB c lens, has been appointed, on the recom- 
mendation of Kew, by the Secretary of State for the Colonies, 
Assistant Curator of the Botanic Station, Aburi, Gold Coast. 
