119 
tons or more in weight. Menndsd masses of the same rock also 
cropped out in many plac WA ilta ene adus 
trees were growing in ix oni between these granite ; 
The situation was very dry, but no doubt some paesi ngs 
had sprung up, which, owing to NUM thiekets of shrubs, 
were not perceived." 
Cross obtained at Maracanahu, 30 miles inland from the 
of Ceara, lat. 4? S., 60 plants and 700 se eds. (Report, pp. 12-14) 
Of these, 42 plants and the seeds were safely deposited at Kew on 
the 23rd Nov vember, 1876. The following note appeared in the 
Kew Report (1877, p. 16) :— 
^ As stated in my last year's Report, we obtained from the 
seeds and vae of the Ceara rubber brought to this country by 
The further steps EIE a distribute plants of the fe rubber 
are given in the Kew Report for 1878 (p. 15) as follo 
* At the end of August of last year consignments sies lends of 
the Ceara rubber, consisting, in each instance, of two wardian 
cases containing 80 plants, and one dry box containing 40 plants 
i Be 
m 
ras, and Dr. King, of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Calcutta. 
Of those sent to Madras all were alive on arrival in the wardian 
cases, while of the contents of the dry box about half were saved. 
Those originally sent to Dr. King (see Kew Report for 1877, p. 16) 
arrived in rather bad condition. Few were saved, and the 
of these did not impress Dr. King favourably. ‘They all ‘bok 
more or less weak and wae as if the climate were too damp for 
them.’ This was, perhaps, a premature judgment from want of 
familiarity with the habit of the plant. Dr. King now writes :— 
‘Ceara rubber is going to be a success here 
* At Ceylon, in April, one of the plants first sent out had already 
made an attempt to flower, and by the end o e year 
Dr. Thwaites was distributing copious supplies of seed to Calcutta, 
Burmah, Madras, and Singapore (where, however, it seems unable 
to stand the wet se ason).” 
* [ regard, therefore, the work of Kew completed as regards the 
Ceara rubber: Living plants of it have been distributed during 
the past year to Dominica, Fiji, Jamaica, Java, Sydney, Trinidad, 
Queensland and Zanzibar.’ 
Of Ceara rubber there are imported into this muny about 200 
nd 
to nu 'There are three es fo in commerce, 
arying according to the mode of tapping the trees and the care 
taken in the preparation hen pure it is regard almost 
next to Para in value is a *dry" rubber, very elastic and 
m rer amounting 
sometimes to 25 per cent. It would appear that the Ceara rubber 
industry is not extending in South Ameriea, for “every year 
