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The result of this mode of preparation is the production of a much purer 
article, and this or gambir is the form of catechuic acid eaten in pin by 
the sae of India. 
e foregoing notes it will be seen that from several of the 
British Colonies represented at the late Colonial and Indian grisea 
no specimens were obtained for the Kew Museum. This, case 
of South Australia, St. Helena, Ascension, Malta, Hong «Barta ‘ak the 
Falkland Islands, is oe to the fact that none ‘of the exhibits were 
ssi 
former colony being very soo Eos, representatives of > timber 
resources; but though frequent applications were made to the Exe- 
cutive Commissioners for both Colonies, the result in each ik was 
uasuccessful. 
J. R. J. 

