trained sab dear in qud of each, under ded control iia direction 
of the respective Commissioners. 
The exports from the Colony during the quarter of pilis Ketdi, 
= palm oil, cotton, beniseed, coprah, gum and rubber were as follows :— 
.. Palm kernels, 13,226 tons; cotton, 46 tons; beniseed, 44 tons; coprah, 
i 13 cwt. ; ogea gum, 9 tons; rabber, 1} ewt.; palm oil, 287,371 gallons, 
ie Wor instruction, in accordance wi ih. the original sche eme, there was 
. introduced on the 14th September, into the garden, one Gbami, the 
. nephew of Chief Manuah of Itebu. 
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whether for Governmental or private enterprise. The Governor and. 
his staff have made several visits to the garden during the e arter. M: 
other visitors to the garden numbered 69 persons, "of wh 
white and 39 black; besides Government officials, they were chiefly : 
made up of ladies, clergymen, and other professional eme 
puits; traders, &c. 
XC.-—CHIGA BREAD. 
( Campsiandra comosa, Benth.) 
An interesting inquiry has been carried on by Dr. Ernst of Caracas, 
respecting the ‘plant yielding Chiga flour or Chiga starch used in the - 
tropical parts of South America for making bread. The investigation. 
is described by Dr. Ernst in letters addressed to Kew as follows :— - 
Caracas, 8th November 1886, 
I sEND you to-day a little tin box with tree seeds of the agen: 
and likewise a sample of the starch prepared from the 
is tree is, know, yet known scientifically, alth 
Humboldt mentions it already in his Personal Narrative 1. 
312, note). “ Une imosacée que no 
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* est commun à Cunaviche et sur les bords du Bas-Oré énoque. - 
- Chiga est un espèce n et je ne connais point d'autre mim 
ui suplée aux céréale: 
Although Humboldt one € e brought the species froth 
Orinoco to Europe, there is no me n of it in the bo otanical part of his 
great work, so that we must suppose that the specimen. either p. lost 
scri 
ains ot Chiga si starch, and. since 2 that time tr 
vain obtain aioe cimens of branches wi wers and fruits fo 
tanical identification. In 1883, there was a fine sample of Chiga ant. 
nally been able to obtain one fruit and 12 isolated seeds. The fruit ] 
keep in our museum ; of the seeds I offer „you three; it is Pari litt 
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