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a nutmeg, but more spherical and flattened or depressed ; they are 
marked throughout their substance with a bro wn rumination ; they are 
astringent, and are largely used in the East as a Wietiestocy, The 
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a: collection of 37 s ecimens of fruits, seeds, a ru 185, new to the 
MAURITIUS. 
Besides the entire collections of fibres and woods exhibited in = 
STRAITS SETTLEMENTS, 
The collection of vegetable products presented to the Kew Museums 
by the Commissioners for the Straits Set tlements amounted to some 115 
nd include 
The following are among the most i important or interesting 
Grogoh, or trap used for pre river fish, made = a pte stem of 
Bamboo by splitting, opening it out, and plaiting. 
mar holder, used as a candlestick. This is an instrument for 
holding a kind of torch made of fein of a species of Shor 
Betel Nut Fibre (Areca Catechu), ra is the fhois husk of the 
fruit exhibited as a paper material. As a waste product it is said to be 
me 
Fine samples of the following edible fruits preserved either in syrup 
or spirit were also obtaine 
Dookoos (Lansium mee sticun), Rambutan (Nephelium lappaceum), 
Kepayang (Hodgsonia heteroclita), Buah Brangan (Castanopsis sp.), 
Pirard sapida, Rhodomyrtus tomentosa, Papaw (Carica Papaya), 
Zalacca edulis, 
BRITISH NORTH BORNEO. 
By far the most important of me sere products exhibited by this 
Commission, and which were at the close of the Exhibition presented 
to the Kew ew Museum, were the rÀ Dútse very fine planks of the 
principal timbers attracted a good deal of attention during the period of 
