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Dictionary, góng-géne is described as the dragon’s eye or lun 
ngan fruit, geng-a-koa being the dried lung-ngan (Mandarin e 
of characters, as geng-geng is the local with us in Formosa), which 
is the article of export 
Natives state that the “lichi ” (Nephelium Litchi, zz is 
not very common in Formosa. It is larger than the lung-ngan or 
géng-géng, has a thinner and much rahi alas husk, and 
contains more edible matter 
The country of Kagi is a region where much of the géng-géng 
yearly production is prepared for exportation. 
he work of first heating the fruit so as to cause the soft part 
inside © shrink, of peeling the husk, and then of dryi pud a 
abstracted soft part over a slow fire, is carried on chiefly by w 
and girls, who earn each about 60 or 80 cash (6-8 cents) a a 
besides getting the husks and hard inner nut for use as fuel, 
The work usually begins about the middle of the eighth month 
Lungan pulp consists of the fleshy arillus which surrounds the 
seed ; it is of a black colour and leathery consistency, and has a 
sweetish smoky flavour and is of an uninviting appearance. 
DCLXV.—MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 
MR. HAROLD MAXWELL LEFROY, B.A., of King's College, 
Cambridge, has been appointed by the Secretary of State for the 
Colonies, on the recommendation of Kew, Lecturer in Economic | 
ores ul in connection with the Agricultural Department, 
West Indies. His services will be generally available for the 
Shae Indian VA apo and his headquarters will be a t Barbados. 
ook First Class Honours in the Natural Sciences 
Tripos i in 1398. 
Mr. WILLIAM R. BUTTENSHAW, M.A., B.Sc., Aberdeen, has 
been appointed by the Secretary of State for the ‘Colonies, on the 
recommendation of Kew, Lecturer in Agriculture for Jamaica. 
hes as an of Agrieulture of the University of Aberdeen 
three years ago, and Mr. Buttenshaw was the first 
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adent o iti the B.Sc. degree in it. 
Mr. F. A. LODGE, a Deputy herren in the Madras Forest 
Department, has been selected by the Secretary of State for the 
Colonies, with the sanction of the Spar of State for India, to — = 
Trinidad and furnish a full report and recommendations  . 
on the qun s of forest conservancy. fap 
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