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The uses of tobacco for smoking, owing and as snuff need 
scarcely be mentioned since it is perhaps the most widely spread 
luxury in the world. The total trade in the course of a pe ar 
amounts to more dus 2.000, 000. 000 1b., and the revenue value 
this country alone amounts to more than £15,000,000 over 
£17,000,000 in 1913) annually. 
The principal source of supply to this country of unmanu- 
factured tobacco is the United States from whence in 1913 the 
United Kingdom Seid, 142,042,656 m value £5,657,546. 
The total imports for the year from all sources amounted to 
162,965,925 Ib. ibid E 709,082 ; the ATAN: contributing over 
a million the difference were:—The Netherlands 
(6,450,867 ae nw. £287,493), Turkey (6,247,102 1b. value 
29,756), Germany es 385 si bus sit 620), u pr am 
(1,901,851 lb. value £55,733) Portugu ese East Africa 
(1,570,477 lb. value £39,193) (Trade of the United Kingdom, 
i. 1914, p. 244). 
Several well marked varieties are distinguished by Comes 
V pte e gene du Genre. Nicotiana (1899); Delle Razze dei 
Tabac Filogenesi, Qualita ed Uso (1905)] from which have 
arisen numerous races, cultivated forms, or hybrids, each of these 
being here referred to under the predominating parent plant. 
var. brasiliensis, Comes, Monogr. Nicot. p. 14, tt. 1, 6; Delle 
Razze, p. 19, f. 3, p. 79. 
Broad-leaf Tobaeco. Native of Brazil, Venezuela, Bolivia. 
Cultivated—United States, including Brazilian, Florida, 
Maryland, Ohio, Missouri, Marylander Big Frederick, Marygold, 
Sterling, Tennessee Red, Ruffled Leaf, Landreth, Granville 
County Yellow, and Frans (or Cinnamon Scented) ; Canada, Brazil, 
Paraguay, Argentina, Porto Rico, Chili, France, Germany, Italy, 
Turkey—Adrianopoli, Saloniki, "Herzegovina ; Africa—Algeria, 
Cape, Uganda, Nubia. 
var. fruticosa, Comes, Monogr. Nicot. p. 9, tt. 1, 3; Delle Razze, 
p- 15, f. 1, p. 27. 
diua anm or Shrubby Tobacco. Native of Mexico and. 
Brazil; includin certain tobaecos from Venezuela—Carabobo; 
Japan, ina—Hainan; Nepal; Java, Singapore, Africa— 
pre Sudan (Sennaar), and Turkey—Latakia, Samsun, 
var. havanensis, oy Monogr. Nicot. p. 16, tt. 1, 7; Delle 
Bue, p- 22. n 5, p 
Havana To EAE CM dive of Mexico. Cultivated-— United 
States including the '' ans a types of Connecticut, Penn- 
sylvania, Ohio, Maryland, Missouri, Florida and Havana, 
Wilson's Hybrid, Beian] Grand, the S panish types of Zimmer, 
Little Dutch, Comstock, etc., and vow n of Mexico, Honduras, 
Manila, Java—Besoeki, Kadoe Kedirie, etc. i: Sumatra— Deli, 
en Cochin China—Saigon ; Persia, Aya-Soluk and Greece. 
lancifolia, TM one Nicot. p. 11, tt. 1, 4; Delle 
Moi. p. 18, £. 2, p. 5 
