VARIETIES OF THE CANE. 



Transparent (probably identical with the Black Cheribon) is chiefly planted, 

 then the Ribbon Transparent and the White Transparent" (which are 

 presumably the Striped Cheribon and the White Cheribon). 



In the Java literature relating to cane tests, the cane 'Striped Preanger' 

 is frequently mentioned ; in a discussion at the Sugar Congress, at Soerabaya, 

 in 1900, it was stated that the Black Cheribon or Gonsalves cane was at an 

 early date introduced from the Cheribon district to the Preanger district. 

 Under the conditions there the stock grew into the striped form, which was 

 then selected by the planters ; hence this cane is probably none other than the 

 original Transparent of Wray, Red Ribbon, &c. 



As sugar producers, these canes are of equal importance with the Otaheite. 

 Compared with this cane they are not such heavy croppers under tropical 

 conditions, but are especially suited for colder districts, owing to their habit of 

 early maturity. This is especially true of the striped and dark-coloured 

 varieties, and in Louisiana Stubbs has observed a tendency for the striped 

 cane to pass eventually into the self-coloured dark variety, the dark variety 

 being more adapted to the comparatively cool climate. All of the varieties are 

 of a ' hardy ' nature and afford renumerative crops on soils where the more 

 delicate Otaheite will fail, and also under less careful cultivation ; though not 

 immune to disease they are less susceptible than the Otaheite, and when grown 

 in Demerara the light-coloured variety afforded a megass of such mechanical 

 structure that it was difficultly combustible. 



To these varieties a large number of names have been applied, which are 

 collected below: 



Light Coloured Variety. La Pice, Le Sassier, Panachee, Rose Bamboo, 

 Mexican Bamboo, White Transparent, Naga B, Blue, Hope, Light Java, Mont 

 Blanc, Rappoh, Crystallina, Tibboo Mird, Green, Mamuri, Yellow Singapore, 

 White Cheribon, Burke. 



Dark Coloured Variety. Louisiana Purple, Black Java, Purple Trans- 

 parent, Black Cheribon, Tibboo Etam, Purple Violet, Belouguet, Tabor Numa, 

 Queensland Creole, Purple Mauritius, Purple Bamboo, Moore's Purple, Dark 

 Coloured Bamboo, Meera, Gonzalves, Diard. 



Striped Variety. Transparent, Striped Mexican, Striped Louisiana, San 

 Salvador, Seete, Striped Bamboo, Red Ribbon, Striped Cheribon, Home Ribbon, 

 Mauritius Ribbon, Diard rayee, Striped Preanger. 



The following irregularities in nomenclature may be noted in connection 

 with these canes : 



1. The purple variety is termed Otaheite cane in Bourbon. 



2. The term Bourbon is applied to the light-coloured variety in the 

 collection at Audubon Park. 



3. In Jamaica the light-coloured variety is, according to Cousins 9 , the 

 Otaheite cane. 



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