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[ Enclosure. 
Description of vet nne mederi of the economic use of the 
bulbs of Lilium cordifolium : Uba-yuri ruego m di Kiu (Aino 
name), forwarded for the Musis of the al Garden 
1. Fibre from which starch has been je extracte " 
After the bulbs have been well washed a oaked in water for two 
the hands, and allowed to stand for a night to pec the starch to settle, 
after which the cellular mass is taken out and 
2. Cakes made of the above fibre, by pounding it in a mortar with a 
little water, and then kneadin ng the mass into shape with the hands. 
i uts. i 
Ainos boil and eat them either “ au naturel” or mixed with rice. (‘The 
cakes xd in size, the large ones being over one foot in diameter). 
3. Starch made by the Japanese from Uba-yuri bulbs. That made 
by the Ainai is similar but coarser, 
4. Confectionery made by Japanese from Uba-yuri. 
XCV.—PU-ÉRH TEA. 
A tea under this name spars Ms an article of commerce in Age iin 
of Yun-nan, in the south-west of China, near the boundar Burm 
and Siam. It is said to possess i vitédiefual and invigorating: própértak 
and to be Ay wei? used to aid digestion after heavy meals. A specimen 
of P'u-érh tea was communicated to the Kew Museums DM Mr. Lock- 
hart in 1868 and another by Mr. John Fryer in 1879. Fryer 
Mr. 
states that “this tea is not to be purchased in any part of the east of 
* China. It is sent asa tribute to eis and can only be obtained 
* when brought by officials from Yun he tea is made up into 
Il Sea of a lenticular shape about eight táches in diameter and well 
** pressed." 
r read bout Royal Geographical Society, by Mr. 
Colquho ae M rentir 3, 1882, it is mentioned that “the most 
* celebrated tea in China comes from a part of the Shan country, from 
q a A called I-Bang mainly, situated five days south of the un-nan 
* fron 
tier. is tea, which by a misnomer is called P'u-érh tea, from 
* the name of a prefecture close by, is sent to the town of Ssü-mao for 
“ distribution. From that place it is forwarded to Pekin and the 
* northern provinces; by caravans to the Yangtsze, thence by river to 
rds,’ 
Me reari, and from that port northwa: 
In the same paper Mr. Colquhoun Sepa ea the hope that British 
trade would some day tap the southern parts of Yun-nan, and that “ this 
celebrated tea would become a "m ng article of export.” Commenting 
on this latter statement, Mr. G. M. H. Playfair, then Her Majesty’s 
Consul at — in a letter to Kew dated 20th February 1883, . points 
