g ce ; 
m prettily ornamented with these Barir i involueres, an a a 
attracted paki Pa attention. As these were not represented in the 
In 
w museums, application was made to the India Office for a small — 
sample, which, at the request of Lord vides, was e forwarded to 
Kew by the Chief Commissioner of Burma. Th nvolueres i in this 
sample vary from five to nine lines in jeg à ey are usually more 
rless fusiform, tapering at the ends one line in diameter. 
The mean thickest part is about 14 line in diameter. For ium 
specimens of plant yielding these its, we are indebted to 
at M. ; 
y : th. In a note attached to L in ie po EI 
Plantarum, Vol. VIIL, Professor Oliver states that the Kew Herbarium 
OSS , in addition to the packet of involucres from the India Office, 
“ a letter from Mr. R. Bruce, of Balipa: e 
* ofthe British Museum, saying that the involueres are known to the 
* Assamese a ris, and called by them the cowr-monee or crow 
n orandum, dated Simla, 22nd "December 1887, . 
t. Watts pic that * the grain (of this variety of Job's Tears) is not 
Tikely to prove of any great economie value as a source o 
i 
construction of artificial flowers, laces, bugle trimmings, and other 
om sed for which glass beads are being used. If capable of being 
Sw a deep black colour, there might be a very extensive 
“ since such beads would be infinitely more durable 
“ During the Exhibition, several gentleme: 
* inquired after see ble for the abo ‘ 
“ was not able at the time to furnish the es 
cal form of Coix now under consideration, but show 
ordi P erical form. y seemed to think there was 
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prospect even of the common spherieal form comin "Se, 
= 4 objected to its large size. This led the writer to show th 
the Karen garments with the cylindrical form 
e are enabled, by permission of the Bentham Tien, to Rp a 
plate of this variety of Job’s Tears, from. the current issue de the Jc 
Plantarun [Vol. VIL, is 3, oe I 764 a 
rd E oR RHSEA, 
_ (Boehmeria nivea var. tenacissima.) 
d The plant t known under the several names of China Grass, Ramie, or 
Hiec eem to- » the. natural order, Uréicacee, and hence it is not a 
gura ^ but a nettle, somew what resembling in- appearance 
