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y: is ign Gazette" office, in Georgetown, in 1883. Laterinformation 
ihe same subject is included in a Report on “the Balata 
einn of British Guiana," published in 1885. 
The following brief account of the rubber-yielding plants of 
British Guiana appeared in the Appendix to the Report of the 
West India Royal Commission, 1897 (Kew Bulletin, Additional 
Series, I., pp. 34-35) :— 
The most promising rubber tree is the * Hatie.” This is found 
in the upper basin of the Essequebo and Mazaruno rivers, and 
Pomeroon river. r. Jenm 
. several pounds of rubber might be produced. The milk of a tree 
or trees kno c g or 
specimen of rubber obtained by Mr. Jenman from a large twining 
plant known locally as * Macwarrieballi," and determined to be 
Forsteronia gracilis, was received at Kew in 1888. It was shown 
that if the plant from which this rubber was prepared existed in 
any qune P EN interior of the Colony, the collection of the 
rubbe very promising commercial undertaking (Kew 
Bulletin, ss.. m 69—71 [p. 40 
It is very desirable cs all dann rubber trees should be 
carefully and Sauver investigated in order to find out their 
true value. It is probable that it may be found profitable to 
establish na frr pleins i in districts where the best rubber 
trees m already found. Jan be done with little ped. 
and it offers the bost iu mediately extending the 
are plentiful it would only be necessary to clear away some of the 
other vegetation and allow the rubber trees more light and air, as 
well as thinning them out when too crowded. ere the 
conditions are favourable and the plants only sparsely found, m 
seedlings might be transplanted or fresh seeds * dibbled in 
intervals to fill the vacant places. The cost of this plan 
not be considerable, as the trees would require little attention 
after they were well started. 
XXIV.—PARA RUBBER IN THE STRAITS 
SETTLEMENTS. 
[K.B., 1899, pp. 21, 22.] 
Penang.—A brief reference to the experimen icd ageres E this 
rubber was sved in the Kew Bulletin for hes p. 273 
since been received fro r U. AL the 
Assistant Superintendent of Forests, both of which were taken from 
a tree growing in the Botanic 
ing to three pounds. One sample deg n coagulated with, and 
the other without, alum, but both were dried by fire heat. Accom- 
panying the samples was a bag of chips or shavings of the "aloe 
of the rubber tree, containing a quantity of 
it was thought that ji might prove a marketable article for eg 
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