ee 
3 
258 
“ Cost per Arroba (324 n in Bahia. 
Paid to cutters (say) -~ - 500 
Loss i = weight oes water, ke.) - - 80 
Licence - - - 40 
Legiti mization before shipment - - - 7 
Hi als - - - 666 
Wages of muleteers - - - = 39D 
ei and labour - - - - 5 
ransport to coast town (say) = 150 
Wear and tear of materials and implements ~ 'B5 
Municipal taxes at coast town (say) - 40 
‘ood m animals, corn, &e. - - - 100 
Freight to Bahia - 260 
ee and Insuratice 5% on ne 500 - -  I25 
Reis 2,468 
“Taking a milreis as worth 27d. this gives 5s. 7d. in “Bahia,” 
LXXVII—BHABUR GRASS, 
Cae angustifolium, Hackel.) 
K. B., 1888, pp. 157-160. ] 
This grass, which clo osely approaches esparto in habit and in the 
possession of the technical qualities necessary for paper manufacture, 
was first brought into notice by Dr. King in the annual report of the 
Royal Botanic Garden, Calcutta, for the year 1877-78. It was there 
confounded with an entirely distinct plant, Eriophorum geen ios a 
. of Cyperacee, with which it often grows intermix xed, an m 
which, as it rarely flowers, it is hard to distinguish. This error 
pears have originated with Royle, who (illustrations, p. 415) 
identifies Bhabar with Eriophorum comosum var. bade num, It was 
referred to in the Kew Report for 1878, p. 45, as follows 
“ Eriophorum comosum.—This plant is w ell known in Noi orth-Western 
“ India, where, under the name of Bhabar has, it is oe i used as a 
“ material for Ops s. It was submitted by Dr. King to Mr. Routledge 
“ (of the Ford Works, esrin who writes to us:— A small 
“ ‘quantity of bleach brings it up to a good colour. The ultimate 
“fibre is very fine aad delicate, rata ‘ah more so than esparto, and of 
“* about the same strength; the yield, however, is 42 per cent., some- 
“*what less. I think I FT venture to say that it will make a quality 
‘of paper equal to e ee 
“Th the foltowitig an M Mr. Duthie, ap rience ent of the Government 
— Spare S NR sent a specimen to Kew for identifi- 
cat wrote, May 879 :— 
a ta am eal a specimen of a Cyperaceous-looking plant, which I 
“have been aske 
t 
“Tis native name is Bankas, and it is largely used in making rop 
“&c. It has beea sent to me three times, but on each Se 
“ without flowers. It is said to flower only once in three years. 
This recalled a grass which, under the name of Bunkuss appears, from 
the Bengal Catalogue of Indian products, to have been shown at the 
