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silk from a cocoon.’ It is said that by working hard one person can 
collect 5 Ibs. of rubber per diem. According to Sir John Kirk, Landol- 
phia Kirkii ‘yields os best rubber of the enema coast.’ a os “ 
uce the natives to collect it. ‘Every on 
engaged in the inetd and the experiment in consequence sill : 
But it eventually ‘ created a new trade for all those classes pees mea 
of subsistence came to an end’ with its suppression.—W., T. THIsELTon- 
Dyer. 
Fig. 1, a flowering branch—na/ural size ; 2, a flower-bud ; 3, an expanded flower ; 
4 and 5, ‘entra 1 and dorsal view of anther ; 6, gynzceum-—all enlarged ; 7, fruit— 
cae al s 
