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red heartwood. It is used for gun-stocks, wheel-spokes, boat- 
timber, carts, and furniture. The bark yields a good fibre, and 
the capsules a yellow dye like gamboge. Both bark and wood 
contain tannin. A further description of the wood may be obtained 
from Gamble’s “ Manual of Indian Timbers,” p. 88. 
Hibiscus elatus, Sw.—This is known by the two common names 
of “blue mahoe” and “tulip tree.” Stone, “Timbers of Com- 
merce,” p. 9, describes the wood as having a faint, aromatic or 
peppery scent, giving rise to sneezing when worked. [1 is used for 
gun-stocks, carriage poles, ships’ knees, and fishing rods on account 
of its flexible character, and is compared to European ash, but is 
said to be more durable and longer in the fibre than that timber. 
XXVIII—MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 
EpuarD StTRASBURGER.—The news of the sudden death from 
heart failure of Professor Eduard Strasburger, in the night of the 
19th of May, will have come with a great shock to all his friends 
and admirers. Nothing was known at Kew of any ailment havin 
overtaken him, and when he paid his last visit to the Royal Botanic 
ardens a very few years ago he seemed still to be in his usual 
confined to that language. At that time, and on other occasions, 
he was an enthusiastic visitor and admirer of the Royal Botanic 
Gardens and their treasures which his keen eye was quick to 
discover. He was never tired to point out the precious oppor- 
tunities which await there the botanist who will avail himself of the 
hospitality of the establishment. He himself had not the time to 
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usual breadth of thought and universal culture. No one has 
written more beautifully about the glories of the Riviera; and 
fascinating and stimulating as he appears to us in the “ Rambles on 
the Riviera” so he was also in conversation, charming, many-sided 
and refined. 
