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the "Sadd " in the upper reaches of the White Nile briquettes 

 similar in shape and cubic capacity to brown coal briquettes, 

 using machinery capable of deaUng with 50 tons of fuel a day 

 (I.e. Dec. 2nd, 1910, p. 62) and for this purpose a comi^any — 

 "Sudd Fuel (Suddite) Ltd."— was formed in February 1912; 

 the concession granted was approximately 375,000 acres and 

 a factory with an output of 50,000 tons per annum was to be 

 erected in the neighbourhood of Taufikla. " Suddite " was the 

 name of the fuel and it was proposed also to export material for 

 the manufacture of paper. Nothing, however, seems to have 

 come of this, and the Company it is understood has ceased to 

 exist. Similar concessions for the manufacture of paper-pulp 

 have been made in the French Congo— Bass- Ogoue (Agron. Col. 

 V. 1920, p. 165), in Zululand (Bull. Imp. Inst. 1918, p. 578, 1920, 

 p. 540), an I in the Belgian Congo— Lower Lualaba (Commerce 

 Kep. Washington, August 16th, 1920, p. 802). 



The stems of Papyrus grow from 8-15 ft. high and the Sudd 

 or " Sadd " formation of the Nile includes other plants — Typha 

 australis, Panicum jnjramidale (Photo in " ~ 

 Ohazal, Broun, 1904). " Ambatch " (ZT 



^ee p. 199 of this work, " Water Lettuce " {Pistia stratioUs) 

 see p. 754, etc., and to keep rivers and waterways clear continual 

 dredging is necessary. Near Lagos it is found in the Lagoons 

 and in the Badagry District it fringes the banks of the rivers 

 and streams, continually blocking the waterways (Kew Bull. 

 1893, p. 183). Papyrus has been planted for commercial pur- 



Mus 



m 



Cairo. The plant is easily but not very quickly propagated by 



means 



it may also be raised from seed, best sown on sphagnum moss! 

 The seedhngs take about two years to become strong plants 

 (Kew Bull. 1911, p. 476). Division of the roots is the means 



of propagation at Kew, where the plant grows freely in fresh 

 water, 



Eef.~" Papyrus," in Historical Account of the Substances 



to 



from the earliest 



Koops, pp. 133-155 



1801).- A Report upon the Herculaneum Manuscripts (con- 

 taining an Account of the Papyrus), Hayter, pp. 1-141, with 

 5 hand coloured plates of the Papyrus plant (London, 1811). 



Remarks on Peyrous' Account of Egyptian Papyrus (Mem. 



di Torino, xxxi. 1826) in the Quarterly Journ. of Science, Litera- 

 ture and the Arts, xxii. 1827, pp. 345-349. Memoire sur 



Le Papyrus des Anciens et sur Le Papyrus de Sicile (Mem. 



L'Acad. des Sci. Paris. 1853), Parlatore, pp. 1-34. " On 



Papyrus, Bonapartea and other Plants which can furnish fibre 

 for Paper Pulp (Brit. Assoc. Rep.) De Claussen, in Pharm. Journ. 



XV. 1855, pp. 236-237. "Papyrus des Anciens Egyptiens 



(Papyrus Antiquorum) " in Cultures Egyptiennes Plantes Tropicales 

 Utiles Officinales et Lidustrielles, Delchevalerie, pp. 54-57 



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