222 
Bibliotheca hispana (Rome, 1672, 122; Mattis 17 e, ii, 154), 
what follows :—* Obiisse dicitur Octobris mense anno MD VIII. 
iu s, ut ex Sm ter 
* pene evanescentibus apparet, in libri hujus Medicine hispalensis 
‘exemplari, quo utor: nisi deferendum sit magis tabule cujusdam 
* altaris ad S. Leandri sanctimonalium Hispatensium, quae Nicolaum 
* Monardem anno MDLXXVIII. non obscure refert decessisse." ” 
Colmeiro (La Botanica y los botanicos de la peninsula hispano- 
adrid, 1858, p. 28), remains in doubt as to which year 
o e to 
adopted. Morejon (l.e.) refers to the documents of a law suit between 
the heirs of Monardes and one Nerozo, in which it is stated that pecie 
was born about the year 1493, and died 1588, at the age of 95 yea. 
* There is another mistake on page 7 of the Bulletin (lines 8 abd 9 
from the bottom) instead of Najas (which means nothing), read hojas, 
$e] eave 
es is however not the first writer who mentions the coca. 
iie nt to International Congress of Coe quss n at Berlin 
in Geisha last year, a paper in French on the use of c ong so 
of the tribes in northern South America, in which I believe I have 
" 
is work was published in 1530, and he er the notice from the 
report of Fray Thomas im who accompanied Alonso Nino and Luis 
Guerra in 1499 to the coast of Cumaná (Peter Martyr, Dec., vii., 
chapt. 6). Unfortunately p time will pass before "a u-— r will 
be printed; but I shall send a copy to you as soon as I get o 
CVIII.—BUAZE FIBRE. 
(Securidaca longipedunculata, Fres.) 
In February of the present year Sir Villiers Lister, Under Secretary 
of State for Foreign Affairs, drew the attention of Kew to the fact that 
Mr. James Nicolls, vi ipn ern on Lake Ngami, had in a report to 
the Colonial Office s that *the Makouba tribe is famous for the 
* beautiful m nets treated by them from the fibre of a species 
* of Cactus sad grows in great abundance along the lakes and 
** rivers.” The e of any eactus for the purpose seeming out of the 
samples of the nets in question, together with specimens of the pla 
yielding the fibre from which the nets are made, could be obtained for 
the museum of the Royal Gardtn: 
The following correspondence g gives the result of the inquiry: — 
CAPE GOVERNMENT to COLONIAL OFFICE, 
Government d Cape Town 
Mx MD. c : 
reference to ne Pata Tich No. 68 of the m 
ultimo, I Tan the honour to enclose, for your information, a copy o 
letter which I have moma T Mr. James Nicolls, eoi iq a 
