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while the seed cases or sheaths, vary in color from a del- 
icate pink to a red, and from a light to a very dark pur- 
ple, but each color very bright and glistening, forming 
on the whole an extremely beautiful appearance.” 
 Shla-go0-ndee.”—This is a sweet and good variety, 
and under favorable conditions produces fine sized stalks. 
The seed heads are very stiff and erect, and the seed 
vessels are compact, and very close. It usually takes 
three and a half months to reach maturity, and it rattoons 
very quickly, as the following memorandum of my diary 
will show: 
“December 18th. Cut down a small patch of imphee, 
and dug up the ground for the purpose of planting arrow- 
root, but some of the imphee not being entirely eradicated 
sprung up afresh, some roots having fifteen stalks each. 
On the 18th of February, one of them (Shla-goon-dee) was 
upwards of six feet in height, with a thick stalk, and the 
seed head just thrown out, being only two months and five 
days from its being cut down and apparently destroyed.” 
This bunch of seed I gathered during the first week in 
March, and I have it now in England. 
‘* Zim-moo-ma-na.” —This is likewise a sweet and good 
variety, with seed heads upright and compact, and fine 
plump seeds, very numerous. 
* E-both-la,” “ Boo-ce-ana,” ‘ Koom-ba-na,” “' See-en-gla,” 
“ Zimba-zd-na,” and “ #-thlo-sa,” form the remainder of 
the fifteen varieties, each differing slightly from the others 
in its saccharine qualities as well as in appearance, but 
still easily distinguished from each other by any one 
who has studied them. I do not see the necessity of 
entering at present into further detail in regard to the 
