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transhipment to Havana; unrefined beet sugar in bags from 
Hamburg ; field beans ( Vicia Faba) from Hankow ; tapioca. in bags 
from Singapore ; ; molastella in bags from Java. This product a 
found upon enquiry to be tapioca root mixed with molasses and 
employed in the preparation of cattle food, as a good substitute for 
locust beans (Ceratonia siliqua) for the purpose ; crushed tapioca 
root from Java. This had much the appearance of half-stuff for 
paper-making, being perfectly white. Like the last mentioned this 
is used for cattle food ; rattans of various diameters bent in the 
middle and tied into Sandias of many sizes; onions in crates from 
Valencia and Lisbon. Immense quantities of cotton were being 
landed from the United States of America, and one could not fail 
to observe the great waste of a valuable product due entirely to the 
flimsy covering of the bales and the absence of a strong binding 
materia 
The fo llowing were observed on sale in the city:—Tonquin beans, 
the fragrant seeds of Dipteryx odorata, at seven for sixpence; sweet 
potatoes, the tubers of Ipomoea Batatas at sixpence per lb., an 
maté or Paraguay tea, the coarsely ground leaves of Ilex para- 
guensis at one shilling and sixpence per lb. 
X.—_KRASCHENINNIKOWIA. 
H. TaKepDa. 
This small genus g Caryophyllaceae, established by Turezaninow* 
and extended by Maximowicz,t though included in Stellaria by 
several botanistst, is a distinct genus well characterised by the 
presence of a tuberous rhizome, dimorphic flowers, and 2-4 st fo 
with capitate stigmas. The character of the petals, which are 
entire in the majority of the species and only emarginate in a very 
few, points to an affinity with Arenaria. Other characters, however, 
clearly separate it from the latter genus. The species referable to 
this genus are all small perennial gui herbs occurring in 
India, China, Corea, Siberia and Japa 
Although Krashtaen has “Sieh dealt pias by ease zl 
and more recently by Korshinsky{, a rev ased 
material seems to be desirable. §So far the ‘olewine ‘en Saas 
of this genus have been published :— 
K. rupestris, Bis in Flora 1834, Beibl. p. 9 (nom. nud.); 
Fl. Baic.-Dah. i, p. 239. 
K. Lisricngii i 14 Prol. Fl. Japon, p. 3 
. raphanorhiza (Hemsl.), Korsh. in Bull. hae Imp. Sc. St. 
Pétersb., sér. 5, ix, 1898, p. 39. 
*Turez. in Flora, 1834, Beibl., p.9 (nom. nud.); Fl. Baic.-Dah. i. p. 238, in Endl. 
+P. 
he eae a 
enth. et Hoo Pl.i ae 49; soos monger agg Se co Hook. f., Fl. 
Brit. Ind. i, p. 231 :  Homal., Ind. Fl. Si 69; F : 100 ; 
ag iy Mig in. fe toe eee ee 
§Maxim., Fil “Tan at. i, seep Shor 
in Bull. Sc. St. or xviii 1 . 374-377. 
‘tant ibid. sér. 5, ix, Se, 1808, PP. 37-40, — 
