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and the numerous references contained init to the plants and the plant- 
products noted by him in the journey inland up the Poh Chung river. 
2. Mr. Parker states on page 9 that “another peculiarity of this 
Ai Deon is the ubiquitousness of the dwarf Pandanus, probably the 
same as the P, odoratissimus of Fiji, the fibre of which here, as there, 
“is sang in the manufacture of ‘ grass-cloth,’ and is usually known to 
“ foreign trade here as ‘hemp.’” In the marginal note this is described 
as “cloth from the wild pine-apple.” 
3. As the various plants yielding what is locally known as “hem mp” 
= ge parts of China are now in course of being investigated at 
Mr. Thiselton-Dyer would be glad to receive dried specimens 
of aa of the Pandanus described by Mr. Parker, and also specimens 
of the fibre as it usually appears in trade at Kiun gchow. The latter 
would be placed for reference in the Museum of Economic Botany 
attached to this establishment. 
I have, &e., 
Sir Villiers Lister, K.C.M.G., (Signed) D. MORRIS. 
Foreign Office, S.W. 
FOREIGN OFFICE to ROYAL GARDENS, KEW. 
SIR, Foreign Office, November 4, 1891. 
WITH reference to the letter = this Department on the 23rd 
randum dra 
Kiungchow, 5 showing that the hemp exported from the above-mentioned 
place is made from the fibre of the pine-apple, and not of the Pandanus. 
The parcel of specimens alluded to in Mr. Parker's Memorandum has 
not yet arrived, but will be forwarded directly it is received. 
c. 
(Signed) T. H. SANDERSON. 
W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, Esq., 
Kew Gardens. 
[Enclosure.] 
REPORT BY MR. CONSUL PARKER, KIUNGCHOW. 
he inquiry instituted by the Kew authorities has led to the discovery 
that the finer kinds of “hemp ” which == orare hence are the fibre 
of the oe and not of the Pandan 
Mr. Stuhlmann, in his Customs Report rp 1877, does, indeed, mention 
this “ cieepile fibre, ” other two Commissioners refer to it as “ hemp.’ 
Mr. Commissioner Neumann, in his Report for 1889, says :—“ What is 
“ exported under the name of hemp is the fibre of the pimcapols plant 
sas “ (Pandanus) ; ; it comes principally from the Lie-chou peninsula, and 
gorap = much as $40 to $140 the picul ” [1s. to 3s. a pound]. 
From appearance of the ubiquitous Pandanus, I should suppose 
it to re same plant as the Pandanus of Fiji, which ei I have 
recently visited. I now find, however, that the faa bpa make mats, 
not clothing, out of the P. odoratissimus, and that the Pandanus of 
Hoihow is useless ean for hedgerowsand fuel. Iti is sae that, some- 
where inland, mats are made of it here, and that its root is used in the 
Pharmacopeia asa febrituge. Evel No. 4 contains a few leaves of 
this plant, and the tin box c its t, which seems to mature 
from April to September at tery if not all through the year. 
