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Honey prepared from one beans paga Siliqua). These beans 
contain a large quantity of sweet pulp, and are used in Southern 
es, pigs, &c., and 
in times of scarcity. Quantities of the beans are now imported into 
this country, and form one of the ingredients in the concentrated cattle 
ithia Seeds and Gum (Pistacia plea snes Da ood and 
Cones of Alnus orientalis. Fruits of Arbutus Andrachne, & 
INDIA. 
The enormous collection of Misa prote shown in this court 
made the selection for the Kew Museum one of some difficulty, neverthe- 
less a very large series was procured ae Fives to Kew. The fol- 
lowing are only a few examples Siete the nature of the exhibits. 
Among the Em d dae specimens of timber acquired for the 
Museum may be mentioned fine slab of Padouk or Andaman Red- 
w Pte i 
Islands. The wood is fairly hard, of a deep red colour, which darkens 
or becomes brown on exposure to the light ; it seasons well, and takes 
a good polish, for which reasons it is much used for furniture as well as 
for cabinet work, &c. 
Andaman Marble Wood (Diospyros Kurzii) is produced by an 
evergreen tree, native of the Andaman Islands, as it 
indicates. This wood was an interesting featur re in the Indian 
Economic Court on account of the eculiar marking of one slab, which 
e d 
A English hardwood dealers. ‘The Andamanese employ it for handles 
and sheaths, of nde and for furniture. 
A dug-out or canoe formed from the hollowed out stem of the Tål or 
Palmyra Tree (Borassus flabelliformis), was secured for and has 
been placed in the No. 2 Museum. The Hindoos also use the hollowed 
out stems of this palm for water pipes; and split in half for gutters and 
open water channels. 
The oy Abe and instructive model of an Indigo man 
which has now been placed in a special case in Museum No. 3, wa an 
object of parkiet attention during the Exhibition ; it ee: Hee an 
facture of indigo through all the various processes, from the bringing in 
or harvesting of the crop to the finished manufactured product. 
Another model showing the collection of Toddy, from the Indian Date 
Palm (Phenix sylvestris), and its subsequent ean into sugar, has 
been placed in the No. 2 Museu ctor of the toddy is 
A heat in tke crown of leaves, drawing the j Juice from the freshly 
cut spat 
A very large eer of fibres was sent from India to the Exhibi- 
tion, and from these a typical set was selected for Kew. Amon ng t the 
more important, of them may be mentioned the following :-- 
Jute (Co rchorus eapsularis and C. olitori The form 
yields the J ute fibre of Centen and East iiei while the Titir en 
