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OTHER Crops. 7 
_ I fear that it will be very difficult for Gover pe to show remunera- 
thought that if one tenth of the ‘English ener ey | y ad aee had been 
devoted to the wild date palm (Phenix sylv Me d, that have been devoted 
to tea, the results would à been very surprising. Few educated natives 
take any real interest in agriculture; on the European tea planta- 
tions Bengalee baboos are kept as clerks in the office ; but as overseer 
both in the field and in the factory, Paharias are usually preferred to 
Bengalees. The Bengaiee sete esteems rice as the great crop; 
and, “if he tries to grow any other, be it sugar cane or onions, his one 
idea is irrigation, My view is that rice is the very last crop on which 
we should attempt to give the Bengalee instruction. 
C. B. CLARKE. 
LXXII.—SILKWORM THORN. 
( Cudrania triloba, Hance.) 
With Plate, 
This is a tree evidently of wide distribution in Met and known as 
the Silkworm Thorn. Its Chinese name is Tsa. It belon 
shrubby tree it was introduced to this country in 1872, and a plant 
(bearing staminate flowers only) growing at Kew has pr oved sufficiently 
hardy to stand the winter in the open ground. The juvenile shoots are 
armed with strong, straight-pointed, axillary ; ema while the leaves on 
the same shoots are broadly three-lobed. entral lobe is Mire 
deltoid and much longer than che side lobes, e leaves of matur 
fruiting branches are entire, broadly elliptical or obovnte-elliptiill vu 
i 
smooth above, pale beneath, 21— 41 inches long and 11— 23 inches 
broad ; the petioles are 1—1 in ich lon 
(dicecious) flowers are = come heads (capitula) single 
the axils of the leaves. 
somewhat hard, and shin 
n pairs in 
he fruiting capitulum is elliptical, pete 
The plant was escribe under its aoe name mf the - Dr. - ; 
Hance, in Journal of ENS ^ ME 
9. 
The synonymy is Gudra ania tricuspidata, Bur. in Jav, Arb Segre z. 243, 
and Maclura tricuspi ta, , fig. 37. and 
«Hork 
1872, 56, fig, d: It is also igei ind: setar ib "Nicholson, Dict. : 
Its extensive ene: eben in China may be gathered from the fact that — 
-there are specimens in the Kew Herbarium from Sha tung ghai, 
Binge, Ichang, Kap Kwsalung, and Hooper Island, Corean Archi- 
e ite t i 
Chinese plants. Dr. Henry states that the Silkworm 
— to be as good for silkworms as the mulberry, but it is not used 
long as mulberry leaves can be had, because the tree is thorny and it 
is bt odi to pick off the leaves. It is given chiefly to adult silk- 
B2 
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Bi 2 
'The staminate amd ‘Distillate A 
horn is cone 
