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be conveyed to Lieutenant-Colonel Stace for the admirable way in which 
he forwarded the specimens to this country. 
e, &e.. 
(Signed) D, MORRIS, 
Sir Villiers Lister, K.C.M.G., Assistant Director. 
Foreign Office, 
MESSRS. IDE AND CHRISTIE to ROYAL GARDENS, KEW. 
72, Mark Lane, London, 
SIR, June 27, 1892. 
WE duly received your oe of the 18th instant, accompanying 
a sample of fibre from a plant known as the “ Aloe of Somali-land.” 
ith the exception of its colour, its LEETE is perfect, and even 
as it is, we value it to-day at 25/. per ton. We are of opinion that if 
care were taken to improve the colour, a eah higher price 
would be readily obtainable, perhaps as much as 507. per ton, if a pure 
white fibre could be attained without loss of oe and lustre. 
(Signed) ioe AND CHRISTIE. 
D. Morris, Esq., M.A., F.L.S., 
Royal Gardens, Kew. 
NOTE ADDED, 1894.—Good photographs of Sansevieria Ehrenbergii in flower 
were received from Lieut.-Colonel Stace in July 1893. The plant has been figured 
d i i x 2,269, 
and gaskets in Hookers Icones Plantarum, pl e dr g the 
wers ed upon careful sketches supplied to Kew by Dr. Schweinfurth, bhe 
author of the species. The Kew herbarium still requires e parera of the dried 
flowers, and Suse Lieut.-Colonel Stace has kindly promised to s 
XLI—SANSEVIERIA FIBRE FROM BECHUANA- 
LAND.* 
(Sansevieria sulcata, Bojer.) 
[K. B. 1889, pp. 222-224.] 
In n February of the present year Sir Villiers Lister, Under Secretary 
of State for Foreign Affairs, drew the attention of Kew to the fact that 
Mr. James Nicolls, of Mafeking on Lake Ngami, had in a report to the 
Colonial Office stated that “the Makouba tribe is famous for the 
“ beautiful fish nets manufactured by them from the fibre of a species 
“of Cactus which grows in great abundance along the es and 
question, applica on was made to the Colonial Otfice, asking if ES os 
* NOTE ADDED, 1894.—The original account of this fibre in the Koo Battin 
under, Buazé fibre (Securidaca longipedunculata). On receipt, later, of 
7 eeren of the plant, it was shown that the fibre was -yielded by a ajoit of 
