5S5 



Hevea, Aubl. 



Hevea brasiliensis, MiilL Arg.\ Fl. Trop. Afr. VI. Sect. 1, 



p. 743. 



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* Xll^ — Lam. Encycl. t- 790 {Siphonia) ; Jussieu, Euph. t. 12, 

 f. 38e {Siphonia brasiliensis) ; Xees von Esenbeck, Plant. Medic. 

 Diisseld. t. 141 {Siphonia elastica) ; Woodville, Med. Bot. iv. 

 (1832) t. 224 {SipJionia elastica) ; Haj^ne, Darst. Beschr. GeAvachse, 

 xiv. t, 5 {Siphonia brasiliensis) ; Collins, Caoutch. t. 1 ; Hook. 

 Ic. Ph t. 2573, flE. 1-7; Kohler, Med. Pflan. iii ; Zippel, Ausl. 

 Handels Nahrpfl. t. 38 {Siphonia elastica); Tropenpfl. 1898, 

 p. 271; Arb, Amazon (1900) tt. 4-5 (" Seringueira '') ; Preuss, 

 Expedit. Cent, und Siidamer. p. 26 (in Bot- Gart. Port of Spain) ; 

 Tropenpfl. Beih. 1905, pp. 7 & 23 (habit); Bull. Econ. Indo. 

 Chine, 1905, pp. 690 (inflor.), 691 & 693 (fr. & seeds); Yves 

 Henry, Caoutchouc Afr. Occid, Frang. p. 197, f. 6 (Rameau 

 fruct. d'Hevea fr. coupe); Arb. Amazon (1906) t. 33, f. 2; 

 Bull. Agric. Congo Beige, i. 1910, p, 253 (trees 2^ years old)^ 

 Brown, Rubber, t. 2 ; Harrison & Stockdale, Rubber & Balata ^ 

 B. Guiana, fE. 1-9. 



Vernac. names. — Seringueira branca, Seringueira preta (Brazil*. 

 Iluber, Prafn).— Para Rubber ; Elastic Resin Tree (Woodville). 



Native of Brazil. Cultivated in Nigeria, including the^ 

 Cameroons and other parts of Tropical Africa ; in Ceylon, 



Indies, West Indies, Mauritius 



&c. 



r 



The product of this tree so well known as " Para Rubber 



5> 



ma 



ment from apparently small beginnings ; the story has been 

 so often told that it is not proposed to repeat it here, the main 

 facts are recalled by mention of the names of the earUer workers 

 Markham (India Office), Hooker, Thiselton-Dyer (Kew), Thwaites, 

 Trimen (Ceylon), Cantley, Murton, Low, Ridley (Malay Penin- 

 sula) ; Wickham, Cross (Collectors), recorded on a silver plate 

 (now in the Para Rubber Case, Kew Museum No, 1) presented 

 to the Royal Botanic Gardens, July 7th, 1911, by The Rubber 

 Growers' Association at the International Rubber Exhibition 

 in London 1911. The Kew Report for 1876, records the arrival 



Kew 



from 



plants raised from these seeds. Samples of Cejdon-grown 

 rubber were submitted to Kew as early as 1882: but, the first 

 sample of rubber {now in the Museum at Kew) giving a satis- 



comm 



was sent by Dr, Trimen from Ceylon to Kew in 1892, valued in 

 Mincing Lane (Feb. 1893) at from 2^. 3^.-2-5. 6d. per lb. {see 

 Kew Bull. 1893 J p. 159), and plantation rubber, according to 

 statistics first began to appear in marketable quantities in 1903 

 from Ceylon although exports on a smaller scale from this 



made 



The Straits Settle- 



same 



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