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It was striking to observe the quantities of copra Cocos 
— ma in heaps and sacks, shipped chiefly trom Singapore 
mbique. This port is the centre of the ground nut 
vem. ge a ais I visited two large sheds con- 
nn enormous heaps of ground nuts in the husk. Workmen 
were engaged in sifting and weighing this product into small bags. 
The Hote are from three to four feet in diameter, suspended 
oil cake, square and circular in shape, which I found, upon 
enquiry, to be the residue of the ground nut after the extraction 
of the oil. I also noticed on several occasions oil cake of various 
pes and colour being carted to the docks for export. In 
er riet to copra and ground = were other oil seeds, including 
rape, mustard, linseed, and castor oil. Many miscellaneous pro- 
ducts may be added to the list, si as rice in sacks, wheat which 
was being unshipped from Bom mbay, liquorice root in oblong 
cumbersome bales wrapped i atting made of Tilia bast, large 
casks of olive oil from Tunis, Bilas of cotton, sandalw ood. chips 
in sacks, long cese packages of Chinese matting, bales o 
Chinese coir, crin vegetal (green and black), bales of jute, esparto, 
and orchella weed, aka latter packed in matting of palm leaf, 
peel held together with bands of iron hooping. I also observed 
one occasion what appeared to be teazled esparto being 
lhere were ME of castor oil, Backs of peas (Pisum 
sativum, L.), bags of bine root for the manufacture of tobacco 
pipes, a and very neatly and closely ES bales of liquorice 
root and bales of virgin cork awaiting expor 
arge quantities of timber stacked in she is similar to those of 
the London Docks, but with less care and unifo were also 
noted. I was enabled to identify with a fair amount of certainty 
the following :—Fine butts and burrs of walnut from Batoum 
and ea a scab of various ee ed chiefly 
boxwood in 6, 7, and 8 feet lengths and about 
10 inches in "acr from Batou m, Macassar, and Mozambique, 
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. omp, of the Jardin des Plantes, Faris, is derived from a 
species of Bursera, planks apparently of a coniferous wood 
| “Saigon usine,” a light-coloured wood shipped from 
Hull which I took to be ash, and very large quantities of oak 
staves for casks, = addition to - set I noticed on 
eals 
whole trunks of a a pine of about 1 foot in dinde whi 
probably pit props used in mining. 
MISCELLANEOUS NOTES, 
In Paris, Lyons, and Meme a : e the pods of 
Arachis hypogea, L., are commonly hawked about the streets 
under the name of Pistacios. Pistachio Nut is the common 
