The next most interesting fibre exhibited in the Natal C Cou appears 
to have been forwarded by Mr. J. Kirkman, of Umzinto. : 
by Mr. Wood to belong to the natural order Urticacec, bu jer ato 
that time been unable to obtain tenui fruit or flowers, d it was 
unrepresented in the herbarium at Dur 
Of eR in Natal he states :— 
| ; “There ar eral indigenous varieties, some of which attain & Y. 
Sec * height of o over paste feet, with a pithy semi-herbaceous stem eight 
p * inches in diameter. thers are more or less dwarfish, being but half 
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are 
* thread they make, in their own rude manner, from the ae conta 
* therein. It is known to them by the name “imbogo sempi 
In a letter, dated 23rd August 1887, Mr. Woods writes :— 
“ By this post I send flowers of my No. 3, Hin which appears to be a 
It is a shrub about 8 to 10 fee t high or more, and is, I 
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* think, the plant producing the fibre which was said to be PE a 
v re shown at late Colonial and Indian Exhibition. 
“ The is not on in the mi 
first time that I have xA the flo 
be i ee ortant, I think, to ascertain whether E i is. 
e; it grows readily from cuttings, and could be cs 
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really of v. 
in quantity x found to be payable." 
Again on the 23rd November :— 
* I have collected a quantity of seed for distribution, also staminal - 
* flowers, of my No. 3,837, Urera sp., but Iam afraid that they are 
scarcely recognisable. .A specimen of bark shall be sent Lee le 
— post. I should like to have sent a larger paver e 
essenger I sent said that the trees been stripped. 
who use the bark for m 
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cumstances of Natal than the China grass. On receipt of 
: sample, it will then be possible to ra its merits in an } 
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We are enabled, by permission of the Bentham 
plate of this Natal fibre plank, 
