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be carried. The Government liaviPig allowed a sum to be 

 placed on the Estimates of next } ear for the purpose of creat- 

 ing nurseries, advantage has been taken to procure a site at 

 Curepipe, which will be taken in hand as soon as possible. 



l8o. If a Eorest-Department is created, do you think it 

 advisable that the branch of the Administration, which has in 

 charge the Botanical Gardens, should form part of such de- 

 partment ? 



18. As the Forest Department would necessarily have to 

 do with the introduction, naturalization and multiplication of 

 all sorts of trees and seeds for replanting, &c., and would like- 

 ly institute surveillance over the thinning and felling of tim- 

 ber, we believe it would be advisable to make the Department 

 of the Botanical Gardens in some way connected with it. 



Port-Louis, 6th December 1867. 



L. BOUTON, 



President. 

 4th Committee, "Water Supply Commission. 



List of Plants mentioned in the Report- 



Botanical names. Vernacular names. 



Acacia Lebbeck Bois noir 



— Leucocephala Acacia blanc 



Adansonia digitata Baobab 



Anona reticulata Coeur de bceuf 



Araacaria Bidwilii Pin de Norfolk 



Artocarpus integrifolia Jack 



Arum Sp. Songe 



Bambusa spinosa Bambou a epine 



Baringtonia speciosa Bonnet carre 



Cactus Sp. Raquette 



CfiBsalpinia Sp. Sapan 



Calophyllum inophyllum Tatahamaka 



Carapa Moluccensis Carapa 



Casuarina equisetifolia Filao 



Cedrela Sp. Cedrel 



