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minutely pania corollas pow a somewhat different disc. The 
delicate indumentum of the corolla is, however, one of the most 
characteristic ceu of Pe latifolia, and as to the alleged 
differences in the disc, I cannot find them. K. con na was 
placed close to K. Scheffleri by De Wildeman and described as a 
ope species mainly on account of its distribution, whilst it 
was rated from F. latifolia for its more or less velvety 
corollas, those of T. Tun ed Bon described às glabrous by 
, pointed out in my origina 
description of et latifolia, Tabet | ‘the Stolk is very minutely 
pubescent witho 
This species, like F. africana, does not seem to yield any 
serviceable rubber. 
O. STAPF. 
XXIL—PARA RUBBER IN CEYLON. 
[ K.B., 1893, p. 159.] 
As stated in the Kew Report for 1876, p. 8, Mr. H. A. Wickham, 
a resident on the Amazon, was commissioned by the India Office 
to collect seeds of Hevea brasiliensis. He arrived in England on 
June 14th with 70,000 seeds obtained on the Rio Tapajos, and on 
August 12th following, about 2,000 plants raised at Kew fro 
these seeds were despatched to Ceylon in ardian pric 
Ninety per cent. of Mer plants reached their destination in perfect 
condition. A further consignment o plants was sent in 1877, 
making the total mages of plants transmitted to Ceylon 2,119 
(Kew Report, 1877, p. 1 
The following raras gives the first result of the 
experiment which affords anything like commercial data for 
deciding whether the cultivation of this staple would be a paying 
enterprise in the Old Wor 
DR. TRIMEN to ROYAL GARDENS, KEW. 
[Received February 6th, 1893.] 
India-rubber (2 1b.) from Hevea br gentis grown in Hene- 
ratgoda Botanic Garden, Ceylon, in 
The tree from which this was Gbialbod is now 15 years old, 
and the stem has a circumference of 6 ft. 5 in. at a yard above the 
ground. 
oe, now been tapped three times, and has given the following 
yie 
In 1888 it gave 1 1b. 113 oz. 
90 
ARID! ye Bid 55 
making a total of 7 lb. 23 oz. of dry rubber in five years. 
The tree is in no respect the worse for this cian the ides 
in alternate years permitting the scars on the trunk to becom 
completely healed. 
(Signed) HENRY TRIMEN. 
