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CASE Note on upper shelf Brown and White Groats. Also 



106. specimens of Oat-bread from Sweden, and Norwegian Flad- 

 BROD, or flat bread ; this is usually made of Barley Meal or 

 Barley and Oatmeal mixed, and baked in thin circles over a 

 wood fire. 



Tribe X. Chloride.^. — No. 182. Numerous varieties 

 of Ragi {Eleusine coracana, Gaertn.), a semi-erect or decum- 

 bent Indian Grass, furnishing the staple grain of the Mysore 

 country, where it is sometimes stored in pits, keeping good for 

 many years. ]n some districts Ragi is commonly used by the 

 poorer classes, while in Patna and Behar it is more esteemed 

 than Maiae. A fermented liquor is prepared from the grain in 

 Darjiling. 



No. 183. Trays made of leaves of Dinebra retroflexa^ 

 Panz., used by the natives of Nubia and Abyssinia for carrying 

 or covering their meals. 



CASE Tribe XI. Festuce.^. Note in centre of the Case flower 



107. spikes of Gynerium saccharoides^ H.B.K., from Dominica and 

 Brazil. It is imported into this country for decorative pur- 

 poses under the name of UvA Grass. Observe also Hats made 

 of the leaves of this plant in Dominica and from the Rio 

 Casiquiare. 



No. 184. Curabi, or Poisoned Arrows of the Macu 

 Indians, from Rio Uauri. The shafts are made of the flower 

 stem of G. saccharoides, and the heads of the wood of the 

 *' Mura piranga." 



No. 185. Poisoned Arrows made by the Catauixi 

 Indians, on the Rio Negro, from the flower stalks of G. 

 saccharoides. 



[In the centre of the Room, hanging from the ceiling, observe 

 a Bird Cage made of the flower stalks of G. saccharoides, from 

 Dominica.] 



Observe flowering spikes of Pampas Grass (G. argenteum, 

 Nees.), a tall South American grass, cultivated for ornament out 

 of doors in Britain. 



No. 186. Arrows made of the flower stalks of the Arvore 

 DE Precha {Gynerium saccharoides), used by the Tapuyo 

 Indians at Santarera for killing fish. 



Note on bottom shelf portion of lower part of stem of 

 Arvore de Frecha. The entire height of this was twenty feet, 



