28& BOTANICAL NOTES, NOTICES, AND QUERIES. [^September. 



100,000 tons for five succeeding years, and others for veiy large sujiplies. 

 40,000 acres of land had been offered to the Company in one part of India, 

 and 15,000 acres in another part, and many thousand more could be ob- 

 tained if the Indian Government would gi-aut facilities. The principal 

 fibres referred to are the Kheea of Assam (one of the strongest and best 

 fibres known) ; the Neilgherry Nettle, the Aloe, the Pine-apple, and the 

 Plantain. The most important is the Eheea, which can be grown to any 

 extent, and imported into this country at highly remunerative prices. The 

 Company propose to turn their attention in the first place more particularly 

 to the Punjaub and north-western provinces of India for flax and hemp, 

 and to Assam and the Sunderbunds for Eheea and Cotton. Mr. Ewart said 

 the principal object of the deputation was to show Sir Charles Wood the 

 fibres out of which paper could be made. Mr. Spensley then presented 

 various portions of the Eheea fibre, both in its raw and manufactured state, 

 and explained the mode adopted in preparing it. Various specimens of 

 paper, lace, hemp, substitutes for horsehair, etc., were exhibited, and it 

 was stated that if the fibre was operated upon while young, eighty per cent, 

 of flax could be obtained. — Times. 



Claytonia alsinoides. 



This plant is perennial, and it is very hardy. It is now in blossom in a 

 shady, cool part of my garden, where the same plant flowered last season 

 (1860) from May to October. , J. Sim. 



Notice. 



Mr. B. M. Watkins, of Glewstone, Eoss, Herefordshire, hereby in- 

 timates that he did not undertake to supply applicants generally with 

 fresh specimens of the Luzulas L. Borreii, L. pllosa, and L. Forsteri, be- 

 cause recent examples are not procurable at all seasons ; but he suggests, 

 that as fresh examples are more satisfactory than dried ones, botanists 

 should avail themselves of the facilities afforded by the Post-oflUce for 

 tlieir exchange. He will undertake to supply specimens in a recent state 

 to those who wish to compare them, if early application is made, and the 

 address of the botanist transmitted accompanied with a postage-stamp. 



Communications have been received from 



Archibald Jerdon ; J. S. M. ; W. Eichardson, Jun. ; Dr. Windsor; W. 

 Pamplin ; Miss E. Stackhouse ; the Eev. Mr. Williams; P. Y. Brocas; W. 

 P. ; the Eev. E. H. Webb ; John Sim ; Ed. Lees, P.L.S.; Joseph Croucher; 

 William Eichardson ; T. E. A. Briggs ; C. J. Ashfield. 



BOOKS, ETC., FOR EEVIEW. 

 The Chemist and Druggist, July \Wi. 

 The Alnwick Mercury, June 1st. 

 Berrow's Worcester Journal, July 2Qth. 

 Dundee, Perth, aud Feoioles Journal, August Brd. 



EBEATUM. 



In No. V4, N.S., for June, 1861, in list of ijlants near Eoss, p. 189, for Arahis 

 vcrna read Draha verna. 



