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rope is coiled up into cylindrical rolls of about two feet in 

 length and one foot in diameter. Porto Eico, Puerta Ca- 

 bello, Maracaibo, and Varinas Roll, are all most probably 

 produced by the perennial tobacco of Buenos Ayres, iY. 

 glauca, and not improbably from other native species. 

 Colour light brown. 



Cuba, Yara, and Havana. — This tobacco, of which the 

 fine Havana cigars are made, is the produce of the annual 

 species,^, repanda, a native of Cuba; it is the N. lyrata of 

 some authors. Colour dark brown. 



Peruvian and Chilian. — Probably from N. andicola, a 

 native of the Peruvian Andes. 



Asiatic Tobaccos : — 



East Indian and Manilla is produced from N. rustica, 

 var. /3, Asiatica. The N. rustica is a native of Europe, Asia, 

 Africa, and America ; there are several varieties of it, but 

 the one indicated is that which is most generally cultivated 

 in India : the leaf is much smaller than the common Ame- 

 rican species, and is ovate instead of lanceolate; one of 

 the varieties is often cultivated in this country as a garden 

 plant. Colour dark brown. 



Persian or Shiraz. — This highly valued sort, occasion- 

 ally received from Turkey, is produced by N. Persica ; the 



