4. 
Foreign Orrice to ROYAL GARDENS, Kew. 
SIR, Foreign Office, 18th apia 
1886. 
Wiru reference to your letter ‘of the 23rd of Jun , Lam directed 
by the Earl of Iddesleigh to transmit to you herew ith a copy of a 
despatch from sb Fg ls Chargé d’Affaires at Cairo, — 
Tam, &e., 
The Assistant Director, (Signed) J. PAUNCEFOTE. 
Royal Gardens, Kew. 

Enclosure in Foreign Office Letter, No. 1. 
No. 416. 
My Lorp Cairo, 16th October 1886. 
H reference to Lord Rosebery’s dopiiteh t o Sir E. Baring, 
No. 138, of “the 30th June last, forwarding copy of a lottó from the 
Director of Kew Gardens, asking that, if possible, samples should be 
procured of a cereal called Tef or Tcheff (Eragrostis abyssinica), I 
have the honour to report to your Lordship that throngh the kindness 
of the Italian Acting Consul-General, I have been enabled to forward to 
your Lordship two bags of the seed required which has been procured 
for him at his request by General Géné, the officer commanding the 
Italian garrison at Massowah. 
General Géné explains that one of the bags contains white Tcheff 
and the other red Tcheff, that both sorts are cultivated in the same 
manner, but that the former is more generally preferred by the well- 
to-do natives on account of its colo 
have the honour to enclose copy 0 f M. Venanzi’s note to me, and 
of my reply, in which I have taken the sents of re to him and 
to General Géné the thanks of your Lordship for the kind and 
courteous readiness which they have shown to T with the request 
contained in Lord Rosebery’s despatch above 
The bags containing the seed have been orcas by sea to the 
address of the Foreign Office 
I have, &c., 
The Earl of Iddesleigh, G.C.B. (Signed) G. H. Porrat. 

Enclosure in Foreign Office Letter No, 2 
M. ET cae Cottiaur Alexandrie, os Oct. 
référant à * Note que Sir E. A m’a f i Thaae ‘de 
m adresset en date du 12 Juillet dernier, je m'empresse ae vous informer 
qu’ aujourd’hui méme j’ai fait expédier par pease de fer, comme du 
