VARIETIES OF THE CANE. 



The following irregularities may be noted in connection with the names 

 applied to this cane (or canes) : 



1. In Keunion a purple cane (the Black Cheribon, &c,, see Mow) is 

 called Otaheite. 



2. The Bourbon, described by Stubbs as so called in the collection at 

 Audubon Park, is the White Cheribon, &c., as described below. 



3. In Jamaica the Otaheite cane is, according to Cousins, 9 the White 

 Transparent, i.e., White Cheribon. 



4. The name Portii was originally applied to a chalky grey-coloured cane 

 in Mauritius. 



5. Owing to confusion in transport of the original cuttings, the name 

 Louzier in Brazil is applied to the cane described below as Cavengerie. 



6. The Loethers (Louzier) cane of Java, as figured and described by Soltwedel 

 and by Eriiger, 7 is a brown cane distinct from the Otaheite.* Prinsen Geerligs 

 states that a cane called Bourbon was introduced into Java from the Straits in 

 1890, and describes it as being very similar to the Cheribon. 



This cane is shown in Fig. 9\; the illustration was prepared from a ripe 

 Louzier cane in Mauritius. For generations this cane has been responsible for 

 a very large proportion of the world's supply of cane sugar, and it combines 

 the characteristics of heavy tonnage, sweet and pure juice, and lowfibre, which is 

 of such mechanical structure that it affords a megass of good fuel value. In 

 the Hawaiian Islands under irrigation it has many times given over ten 

 tons of sugar to the acre and purity in the mixed mill juices of over 90. Its 

 great failing is its susceptibility to fungus diseases, which accounts for its 

 partial disappearance from the British West Indies and Mauritius. It is a 

 shallow rooter, and hence not a drought-resisting cane, and does not succeed 

 without the tropics, or in tropical countries at higher elevations. 



Harrison and Jenman's description 3 of the Bourbon cane is appended : 



Bourbon. Canes few or several, of average length, girth and length 

 of internodes, sub-erect or trailing, nodes constricted, colour yellowish or 

 green, suffused crimson where sun exposed. Arrows, some well and others 

 badly projected. Panicle arrested or well developed, large and copiously 

 branched and flowered. 



Below are collected the names that have been applied to this cane (or 

 canes) ; this list should be read in connection with what has been written 

 above. 



Otaheite, Bourbon, Louzier, Portii, Tibboo Leeut, Keni keni, Cuban, 

 Bamboo II., China II., Colony, Lahaina, Singapore. 



* See Note in Appendix. t See Coloured Plates. 



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