LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. 



1. Flowering Branch of the Para Rubber Tree (^Hevea brasiliensis) 



Frontispiece 



2. One of the Parents of the Para Rubber Industry in the East, 



growing in the Botanic Garden, Heneratgoda, Ceylon 5 



3. Para Rubber Trees planted in the Tarkwa Botanic Station, Gold 



Coast, West Africa, in June 1904 - -23 



4. Para Rubber Seedlings, six months old, in a Nursery on the Guara 



Guara Co.'s Estate near Beira, East Africa - - 31 



5. The " Universal Ant Destroyer" - - - 61 



6. The Eastern Produce and Estate Company's Tapping Implement 70 



7. The "Bowman- North way" Tapping Implements - - 72 



8. The " Michie-Golledge " Tapping Tool - - 73 



9. Miller's Patent Tapping and Paring Knife - - 74 



10. Modified Form of the "Christophe " Tapping Knife - 75 



11. The Macadam "Comb" Pricker - - 76 



12. Relative Size and Position of V-Incisions - 79 



13. Spiral Tapping 85 

 I3A. Injurious Effect of Careless Tapping - 85 



14. Oblong and Round Coagulating Pans, Collecting Cup, and Pail 



with Strainer - - go 



15. Caillet's Monorail 91 



16. Rolling Para Rubber " Biscuits" on an Estate in Ceylon, Latex in 



Coagulating Pans - 99 



17. Para Rubber "Biscuits" being dried in a Tea-leaf Withering 



House, Ceylon - 103 



18. "Michie-Golledge" Rubber Coagulating Machine no 



19. Sectional Diagram of the "Michie-Golledge" Rubber Coagulating 



Machine 1 1 1 



20. Walker's " Worm " Rubber Cutting Machine 112 



2 1 . The " K. L." Coagulator 1 1 3 



22. Messrs David Bridge Co.'s Block Rubber Press 117 



23. Messrs Francis Shaw & Co.'s Hydraulic Blocking Press - - 118 



