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The information Tespecting the use of Loxa bark for wine-making 
purposes in France is of interest. It would appear from this that while 
Loxa bark from South America, with * a peculiar flavour and bouque 
is worth 2s. 2d. to 2s. 6d. per pound, a bark apparently similar js 
appearance and in percentage of quinine troia India, Ceylon, or Jamaica 
is only worth 23d. to 3d. per pound. The use of Cinchona bark for 
quinine wine-ma ing can only prove of limited turam. but the subject 
possesses sufficient importance to deserve to be more fully investigated. 
Messrs. Jenkin and viri have “Ag obligingly forwarded to Kew 
samples of South American Loxa bark of the character mentio in and. 
it is hoped to —— it carefully defer for the special properties which it 
is said to posse 
The following letter removes a possible misconception as to the use 
to which Loxa Cinchona bark is at present applied :— 
Messrs. JENKIN AND PHILLIPS to ROYAL GARDENS, Kew. 
21, Mincing a E.C 
, 
ber 20, 1889. 
We beg to acknowledge the receipt of ur letter of the 19th 
instant, and presume that you have received the specimen sample of 
Loxa bark as requested. 
We are sorry that we did not make our information so clear as we 
might have done in our letter to you, but as you justly interpreted it 
Loxa Cinchona bark (as far as we know) is only used in Kt 
French liqueur, or tonic wine, and is sold by all Parisian apotheca 
We are told by a Spaniard that the common Pitayo Bark, iiem at 
2d. to 3d. per lb., is sometimes used for giving sherry a body. 
The H. O. and a crown, were brands adopted in the time of the 
Spanish dominion, for two different sorts of bark which are both in- 
cluded under the general title Crown Bark. It is imported from 
Payta. 
oci Chinchonz: de Loxa Loxa M 
Wea A 
(S igned) JENKIN AND Puri tirs. 
W. T. Thiselton Dyer, Esq., F.R.S., C.M.G. 
CXVI.—GAMBIER. 
( Uncaria Gambier, Roxb.) 
“Gambier is an article which every tanner in the Kingdom uses 
** more or less, and no other can take its place.” “It used to cost 104. 
“ per ton and now costs 457." 
It is sufficient to quote these two statements from corresponden 
which has recently been addressed to this establishment to justify ds 
publieation in the Kew Bulletin of an account of this very interesting 
commercial product. 
t the pr basen. time Gambier is almost react a ricca of the 
ents he great emporium The 
tivation as a planting industry in other parts of the tropics. With this 
object, copies of the following a addressed to Kew by Mr. W. N, 
Evans, a ierant erae were sent early = the present year to er 
botanical authorities in British uium; British es em Jamai 
Lagos, Natal, Niger Territory, Singapore, sad pies ela 
