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the trees growing in the Orient and those found in the 

 vicinity of the River Tapajoz ; but in his report to the 

 Governor of Para on this subject he states his inability 

 to afford any accurate definition of the changes that 

 have occurred without first making a detailed investiga- 

 tion of the district in the Amazon Valley whence the 

 seed for the Eastern industry originated. 



In one place only is the black Hevea known to exist in 

 the Orient. On the Pasir Oetjing Estate, near Bandoeng 

 in Java, some 120 trees, now fourteen years of age, are 

 to be seen. They were obtained through the assistance 

 of M. Eugene Poisson in 1889, and forwarded by him 

 to Paris ; the seeds were there germinated, and the sur- 

 viving plants were shipped to Java in 1890, and planted 

 at Pasir Oetjing. The following extract from the 

 Journal d' Agriculture Tropicale (published in Paris) on 

 May 31, 1904, in connection with M. Poisson's investi- 

 gations concerning the black variety of Hevea Brasiliensis, 

 is most interesting reading : 



" Nous les avons encadres de deux passages qui s'y 

 rattachent extraits de 1'excellent Rapport de M. Eugene 

 Poisson sur sa mission au Bresil, aux Antilles et au 

 Costa- Rica, public dans le tome X. (1902) des * Nouvelles 

 Archives des Missions scientifiques.' 



" Le premier passage (pp. 7 et 8 du tirage a part) se 

 rapporte au premier voyage, accompli de FeVrier a 

 Juillet 1898, 1'autre (pp. 24, 25) au deuxieme voyage 

 accompli de D^cembre 1898 a Octobre 1899. Ce qui y 

 est dit incidemment du Mangabeira, confirme l'appr- 

 ciation que nous avons donne de cet arbre dans le 

 chapitre correspondant de notre traduction annote des 

 Plantes a caoutchouc de Warburg. 



