- pods about 15-20 em. long and 15 mm. broad and the seeds dull black. 
defe sorry I have no » pods le left. I sent all the ripe seeds I had to 
. his assistants ^ vum geras indicated, I think * iaces you that the — 
m pes (in dec n form of powde iie used in Merida 
few ja ago one of my neri pu nis wrote to me from the State of 
Táchira that he had seen a case of po ising ‘with a kind of bean called - 
here tapiramo (a species of Dolichos). The cooks have a rule to 
throw away the first water in which these tapiramo have been boiled. - 
It is certainly of a disagreeable vM 1 should say that there is a - 
Substance like lupinin in the seed-c 
: ou sent me once seeds of Pachyrhizus [probably P. angulatus] from 
an East Indian garden. The plants grew, but I was unfortunately not — 
in Caracas when they flowered. I have been told by my man that the 
flower was reddish-white. I have a fe ew pods of these plants which I 
send you to-day. They are much nane than those of our ders. 
species, : 
oe 1. Calyx and stamens, 2. Vexillum. 3 and 4, Carinal petal, . 
Pistil, — Enlarged. 
LXXXV nm cm AFRICAN BORTENS 
B 'The information contained in the foll i papers 
_ in respect to West a alban may be apathy pasera in con- 
 tinuation of that already published in a recent number of the Kew : 
—. Bulletin orinda 1888, p. 253) :— 
FOREIGN Orrice to Royan, GARDENS, Krew. 
om Foreign Office, 17th June 1887. 
AM directed by the Marquis of Salisbury "to transmit to yot 
herewith certain samples of india-rubber which have been obt fror 
a district under British protection to the West of the Rio del Rey, b 
Mr. Johnston, British Vice-Consul at Old Calabar, o diro yo 
SESBXE 
result to arts relict 
fame oo ^ 
Wo (Signed) T. V, LISTER, 
= v. T. Thiselton Dyer, Esq, C.M.G., &e. ji 
Royal Gan dens, Kew. S 
Mr. S. W. Sıuver, F.L.S., to Rorat dia, aw, 
E 8, York Gate, Regent’s Park, N, W. ; 
<a Drar Sm, 27th July 1887. 
n ^ REFERRING to mine of hoe 29th ultimo, I have the pleasure to 
"forward a copy of the report from our chemist at Pete wil: 
samples showing Wing he esi and fo siste that sample No, 2 has. 
