526 
growth and tardy maturity, bearing comparati vely few | few 
flowers, with indehiscent fruits but little заа to 
fistulosus is much cultivated under the names of tinda, | s 
albinda, an nd dilp: asand (beloved to the › hea art), and is 
^ Е kno 
east, excep 
d described as 
nt: 
eral of the African Anonacez ha 
"This anaty , particularly attributed. by collector Б 
the Ano о Бо орт ABE rkii, and io most of the 
Uvarias, oma y noted 
T 
, а species very үт sin * 
ing 
described as coming nearest to the Water Melon. | 
in r^ chair. The following P толашаш were 
read :—І. “The Ahtoor cs x the Asc o the 
— Hills from u 
=l. “ 
b 
—The President | 
е Ye 
f 
Жык 
en г many 
тү 
ught may lie. "best advance d. 
sib bid oyed b 
N 
y 
тА 
a 
of the Xylopia. sibi eps т Mala ghetta Pepper, 
Monodora NEA Ja ot Calabash Nutmeg. The wood 
of the arboreous spec „to "d e. good. 
ОР th 
large a propor the whole, ther A. E fow 
Africa, А new species of Artabotrys called лера 
from Tété оп the Zambesi said to bear pleas 
r 
tation ille, a peo Siika рч to be 
"— 
Joys 
n the qm » of the Tigh 
oi amm Бе i 
is every г that 
n | temperate oa 
road abori woo 
| and М 
de 
and it is still ' empl 
resinous 
The silk 
2r 
ut s 
export fom Indis, for the man Жоон of ofa ma i 
eating fruit. Апо а вресї ч ће Ро Sr it is freo paa d being stitute for flannel; it has been employed by Messrs 
Kirkii already menti found by Dr, Kirk on the|of the sea breeze; Ec experience up the | Thresher "& Glennie, of London, for this and 
Zambesi at the foot of Moramballa and opposite Senna, | present aps bears out this expectation. — The | other tunicis Ib works well wit EN 
as also re d to have pleasant edible fruit. In d is ting and the soil varied; forests | silk or cotton n, is E now in comm 
Oxymitra patens, also new, both Mr. Bentham and and Grass meg Serie with one ano The | Mudar silk stoti ЕТ е Cultivation т o Gr 
Mr. Fitch had found a vertical septum g th (December) falls to 58in the moming | chona i» Java” By Ale "Pret Esq., Consul 
ovules and seeds, an anomaly nob observed in to 73 under shelter à 2 р.м, The rainfall is Batavia, The cultivation iof the Cinchona Plant it Jie 
Anonacem.—3, “On the structure of the Ma e in | not поти known, but i s pr robably abou X 100 to ent, and requires tific 
Testacella,” by Lovell Reeve, pi “Оп the spiral | 125 in management e ЧН of the experiment 
markings of the Е us "Irichia," by the | parent ita tho ded, ich  ehiefly call for attention | been entrusted to the care of Dr. D. F. Junghuhn, 
Rev. M. J. Berkeley. t the are considered, "These аге—1. Junpghuhn iS одй iu ё i 
M dd: Bentha: m, Esq., President in the chair. САА, EN là 3, Coffee; 4, Cotton ; 5, Vanilla. by Dr. J. E, de Vry,a chemist of some emin 
E. Romi pf mee elected a Fellow ; Mr. E. Gerrard, | Th» Cinchona is of so much importance, that the | whose вре С аму it is to apply chemical 
an mir T ; p. F. Eschricht, Dr. M. H.| n may be viewed as formed to aid in the intro- | tests from io time to the barks of the 
уез ача an d Dr Herm Schlegel, Foreign duction into the mountainous country of Travancore | Cinchona to одна their intrinsic value. To these 
members of the Society. The following papers were | of this invaluable tree, and th J y be bee is attached the following staff of ovi and 
read :—1. “Оп the enorme habits of 1 III. * On the Culti- ourers, whose duties, as well as those of Dr. Jung- 
the genus Orgyia, H. T. Stainton, a Y vation of Cotton in Mysore." By C. B. Saunders, Esq. Кана, the superintendent, are laid down in a printed 
* Florula Маса,” А . Edgew о Tan This When the subject of an MEUS supply of Cotton süeiiorau of instructions, The whole present 
per embodied the p of more than usual importance, I mage rmanent ga be stated as follo 
t of the 
tan division. "ot Ri eni 
where the Malli resided i in the time of Alexander. The 
р 
many inquiries regarding the cultivation of Cotto 
botanic geography 'osculating bet that 
ben ems i of Toda, and that of Sind ud Е М 
stated to produce fine crops of кенш sugar-cane, and 
p рыша on the Che also ext 
gro ve es of | the. e Pal dm, which. p 
wi 
principally d ee. arabica and Le bbek, tl 
, | tained tha 
Mysore, and learnt not P Vs Sereni. of the talo бз 
of M; still EE to pro 
e | duce considerable quantities of. indigo us Cotton, 
that the New Orleans Ranh when 
occasion, by order of the duet , had p 
duced a very superior Pss specially omandad [E 
the jury у: the Great Exhibition of 1851. І also ascer- 
t the edes nt of cultivatin ng it had been 
but 
Hed o à Ford 
pe 
Salary of s 
assistant, 10007; 
ореап overseers 
Mes ht On t уед й 1860, 
of the Cin ora Plantatio ч was as follows 
Ca — Se di їп in germination, 
TUS 
ай planted 
1л +1 
stock, 700,000 
pl 
of enormous size and height, Dalbergia, &с, ni 
is excessive, varying from 120° in the Ma $ to 20°; and 
ng winter the temperature falls e 
-ai 
ШЫЙ, Bir M. Cubbon found at it v dd d pay 
point every night that is clear. There are frequent 
showers Hail 
I 
| 
antity then produced. 
nd des p qi The Mys 
ernment, referred to, monopolisod 
he occasion 
during that occasionally falls, 
principal], е hot winds 
p out e New Orle eans в seed at 
ed rate, i 
out, 
е | planté in the n ursery в. 
e sides the abore, there was then asu 
ries О ot, дово 0 live cuttings of Calisaya, 
t. Meere pied EC 
with —€— but this cannot be 
pose of “ дау g” 
arts of India. The "e е Phæno nogam f 
ast | fair p tego to the Ryots to cultivate mo 
e 
taloo 
the ne ws for holding out every 
Mon M 
without de TA E fro the 
ent, which dx 
with the cultivation or sale 
elt that the practice formerly doa inf pss 
ble. 
ively the superior plant, wi 
G 
до ТА ia. 10 do. lanceo 
p Lx диев ier 
Ti. 
But, having erre i beyond а doubt that | to 
lts of 1а nd in 
һе same 
13 feet. The ultima 
Cinchona Giperbiodt w would 
the qu uestion (whicl 
highl t ue ү 
р 
décldéd | dpi at once шша "direct meàns 
the | Th 
ppl: „of seed 
assistance, which I 
ет iltivators of Mysore, and vill, D. Жаны dr them to | 
tot! n] 862. 63, 
"n 1924 44 
very little quinine. 
264; young lants 
he beddings and тои sheds БО; p 
Е ДЕ & сеа Seeds i in 
e inches 
et 6 inches; C. 
lancifoli 
the state 
E org 
„15 feet 2 
timate айе 
fa nth 
which are known only in cultivation. The Fig 
gamic flora, exclusive of Fungi, numbers onl 
four | 
province. I vod in the first E made arrangements 
for obtaining from Dharwar a large supply of the best 
which 
species, a Marsilea, an Fave am... Ie we. Capillus 
eris, and a Phascum. The а few gi, two 
of 4 edible ; one resembling a Morel eil Khumba, 
found in profusion in the Rechna 
much liked the n riter's 
втрат. 
c gr which is | Сой 
f the w 
will be sold to the 
ryots at cost price. Secondly, I have, through the 
Fupsrintndont of аре ыч to the ryots of 
ion-growing talooks, dor land taken 
up fc or r the cultivation ^3 Now 
Earth-fruit, t, which Mr. Edgeworth 
like. 
ed by the Шы к nid dé po pe 
Edgeworth i in the European style, proved 
гаша в DE Thir een 
of the hid Orleans, 
difficulty of cleaning it wi 
wap of this country, I have Бае B а tem 
rary measure, for the bee qi of ^ КоА the 
services of a Mr. AE who да for 
employed by aB 
or other xg 
ith t io. 
ogent s Tor pak- 
with salt, 
to. season "their bread. The | WOO, ood when burned is 
ре so that poor people la itin er E 
IV. Pini 
trees of six or seven years’ growth Ыы ба ене 
i 5 feet i in girth, y fall 
э Ж -d 
asa medicine s [y паа ТАЯ the t 
is much eaten in the desert. Citrullus) | 
М о 
get vod and PE well 
for Sklik and They | reac 
are ceil bor red and fit for taking dyes, possess con- 
he 
Morse ee dn ^ md dly, as it has be 
oun that the great drawback to the sition in : 
its Mysore o n piant i тшу шай. Wi 
Japanese broo: 
ur- | р For 
of which are Ego e the Scotch Fir 
Mr. son 
аай, Hu 
bited and 
an ЕР ot Benib 
Chamzerops 
——— 
4Botíceg of Jum 
rehard House, by T. Rive г. 
үре edition ! a к, 
їп А Literature, This edition 
to the 
presento and the fibres 
has 
= 
peret 
