126 COKRJESPONDENCE. 
Land under Cotton^ partly only planted tJiis season, — Eewa river, 
80 to 90 acres; Ka.lavu, 150 acres; Mokogai, 30 acres; Wakaia, 8 
acres; and about 100 acres more among the islands, of white men's 
planting. The natives about here and Bega, and in fact all over the 
islands, are taking it up, vaka viti ; and the traders expect a profitable 
season. There are a gin and a Avindmill going in Mr. Henning's 
yard, which has turned out last season 37 bales of clean cotton, 300 
pounds weight on an average ; and there will soon be a windmill going 
on the river, which Mr. Eebmann, who is setting up a store here, will 
w^ork. Mr. llenning's gin is the one from Samoa, which works beauti- 
fully, and hardly injures the fibre at all. 
My Coffee is growing wonderfully well, and next year I shall have 
from my own seed coffee-plants sufficient to stock all Fiji, if people 
will only buy and plant them ; and if they won't, Nukumoto is big 
enough for all of them. One tree yielded me last season 4500 berries, 
which have been sown and will soon come up. I have also about 
2500 seedlings, from some Eoratonga seed, which Mr. Unshehn sent, 
but which ought to have yielded 15,000 if the seed had been fresh. 
Dr. Brewer, who had as many pounds weight as 1, only raised one 
dozen. The coffee seedlings from Levuka woidd not thrive in among 
the cotton, and so I took them up about a year ago, and planted 
them among the Ivi trees in the back, where they do well. 
Those two Mokka coffee-plants out of your garden are of 5 feet, and 
full of buds to the ground ; your tea-tree is just now in blossom. 
About sheep I know no more than that they are generally healthy 
and well-fed, but do not increase as fast as they are known to do in 
the Australian colonies. There are over fifty head of cattle on Wakaia 
now. 
COEEESPONDENCE. 
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Bemarhs on Tetrathylacium, Cruciferae, IN'elumbium, and Villaresia. 
Mount 
I have looked at the flower of Tetrathijlacium again, and believe I now see 
wliat is meant in the description given in Bentham and Hooker's ' Genera.' The 
* supra hracteas minima^* rehvs only to the leaves of the rachis, in the axils of 
