a e blue, Common near rivers; plantations of savers bundred. 
of this are about Abbeokuta. In cultivation the plant is kept — 
dad 7 or 8 feet high; long shoots are eut close, and it becomes short 
and spurred and bushy, like eee sinensis when similarly treated. 
The y es are gat ered young seen in the specimen), merely 
n a mortar into a blac k a sti made into balls the size 
drei s “fixed with potash; a fine deep blue is produced, very per- 
se Soci years we are entirely indebted to Captain Moloney, C.M.G., 
Governor of Lagos, for specimens of the plant and ultimately for the 
. ds which exi been the means of affording us a scientific determina- 
tion of the spec 
25 ected specimens of Yoruba indigo were brought to this country by 
Captain Moloney in 1883, and a portion of these were submitted to 
mmercial 
ygonum tinc- 
cs Chinese or Manchuciad indigo ; Strobi- 
Room x es dA dye of 
| LXVI. —TRINIDAD IPECACUANHA. 
s: (Cephaelis tomentosa, W.) — due 
is well known thet he dand br de idal Ipecacuanha* is 
een while the supply of the drug is either stationar; 
scarcer. Inquiry is therefore naturally direct 
* 
