CowsutL KANTHACK, Pari, to ROYAL GARDENS, Kew. | 
pub eo British Consulate, Pará, April 3, 1888. 
I HAVE the — to acknowledge the receipt of your letter 
the 8th of piro e and a copy of your Despatch $e od v of 
England. 
which has thus appeared here consists of two differeut : 
kinds. One is obtained from a tree called Jatuba [according to i: 
chell this is probably Hymenea Courbaril, L.], and is of a Me ch 5 
Angico [probably Acacia an Mart mut and is a gum of ; 
colour, oozing out by cutting the bark. This gum ur disci von in 
| bstit 
and is considered a substi for gum arabic. —— i 
. Ishall endeavour to = from Parnahyba specimens of le: 
flowers of these two kinds of gum, and shall be glad wi 
to you with all further fafobihation I may procure. Rm 
I have, &c. T 
D. Morris, Esq., (Signed) E. KANTHACE, 
Assistant Director. Consul. - 
We have ves the plant known under the native name of Meme 
from Burchell as probably Hymen@a, and there is little dou 
ibe character of the gum that it is H. Courbaril, L., the Locust tree of 
e West Indies und the Simiri of iana. The gum 
ang more A the nature of ; a a gum-resin han of 
geir pede um Ani 
insoluble in 
: lately - roe The plant. Known ida i 
native name of Angico is d belese T Nara Angico, Mart. Th 
known.to yield a soluble gum y similar T gum arabic, Until 
specimens are received at Kew. the question cau ri 
d, may assume that the “pulk af corpses! qua 
dod by this latter species ; 
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XLIL—TRINIDAD COFFEE. 
^ Semple staple one ‘of Trinidad are sugar and cacao. e 
pe oe of these two sugar, 700,0 
