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The following interesting particulars have lately been serre 
respecting rubber obtained from these trees during this 
SUPERINTENDENT, BOTANICAL DEPARTMENT, ovdi to 
ROYAL GARDENS, KEW. 
Botanical Department, Trinidad. 
J 2, 1898. 
I FORWARD you a ball of Hevea rubber collected from our 
in the following manner:—The rough bark was first 
s portes d" so as to obtain a clean surface without injuring 
SIR, 
in the morning. e quantity appears to be greater after rainfall. 
It came without fresh cutting. 
Yours faithfully, 
(Signed) J. H. HART. 
The Director, 
Royal Gardens, Kew. 
MESSRS. HECHT, LEVIS and KAHN, to ROYAL GARDENS, KEW. 
21, png. e London, E.C. 
July 12, 1898. 
DEAR SIR, 
reply to your favour of the 8th instant, which only reached 
us this morning, we have examined the ball of Hevea rubber from 
Trinidad which you E. us and find the qubhity excellent in every 
respect, clean, strong and dry. This rubber would be readily 
saleable in this market and would at the present moment command 
a very high pee probably about 3s. to 3s. 2d. per lb., perhaps 
even a little mor 
Yours faithfully, 
(Signed) HECHT, LEVIS and KAHN. 
BRITISH GUIANA. 
Hevea brasiliensis does not appear to have taken well in this 
colony. According to Mr. Hemsley there are sp least two species 
of Hevea posable of British Gui Tms- Hevea pauciflora, Muell. 
Arg. (H. S na, Oliver, pro p in Kew E Report, 1890, P. 
, has bod collected di Jenman oed 125 and 2450), an d by i im 
Thurn (No. dy tnter e Mazaruni River. The other Guiana plant 
has recen aint as a new species and is Hevea confusa, 
Hemsley (Hooker's Icones Plantarum, vol. vi, pt. iii, t. 2574, 
figs. be This was co jHeoted by the Schomburg ks and ay 
e Seat River, by Jenman on ue ede. 
(No. 621) and Essequebo ies (No. 1332), and is now der 
Saher at the Trinidad Botanic Gardens (Hart, No, 3554). 
_ A Report on “some of the Rubber-producing Plants of desc 
Guiana, zi the Government Botanist,” was published at the 
