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prem etd mcm sp. a P common, ppor hp in Niom a” 
Rip; the two species, S. hispidus and S. Kombe, grow in the w 
the ei of the pend which eed them for support. 
Jujubier (probably Zizyphus yr, Lam.) in Rip and Sabac there 
is a wild variety ; the. Wolofs call it Sidem. 
Ese arge number of species of — (Ipomæa, sp.) are found, 
any of which bear beautiful flowers. In the marshes are white 
me lilies, rushes, and arums. In damp spots, mosses, fungi, an 
herbaceous ferns, &c. Finally the Caoutchouc liane (Landolphia, m) 
(in the forests of Fogni, especially towards the sou th) In Gambi 
trade in this is growing more and more important. 

CCXXX.—BANANA DISEASE IN FIJI. 
A short account of the disease affecting banana plants in Fiji was 
published in the Kew Bulletin, Sona n 1890, p. 272. Specimens of 
e disease was 
possibly produced by a nematode worm, er wwe, failing success 
with various insecticides, ploughing the , leaving it fallow, an 
alternating some other crop. The pened ad then be re-planted with 
nana “ stools” fro loca wf 
fir in 
. N. A. Cobb, * Sydney, New South Wales The 
results are » published i in the T otn ltural Gazette of New South Wales, 
The ith 
c į p. 622. Fiji plants were foun affected with 
aphides, which, however, could not be proved to have done much 
damage. In th -stoc was found, and the fact that this 
does been established The presence was shown 
“Tt is rather ae a " (the report continues) “that in the soil 
be found, about 25 of which are new species. Two of these species 
have been shown to be injurious to the plants, one of them attacking 
the roots, and being found living parasitically on certain brown, rotten 
cavities, and the other being found between the sheathes of the leaves of 
the plant, and in some cases even at the very core, where the tissues 
und sein to be quite sound and white. It will therefore be seen that 
there are four separate causes for the diseases of these plants, viz. 
aphides or plant lice, a fungus causing rot in the root-stock, and two 
aec species of nematodes 
“ The remedies that are suggested in a — state of - 
ledge, which, of course, is ore are as Made 
M *i. That where the bananas are atid it a system of rotation 
. be adopted ; that no attempt should be made ptem banana e 
the same ground continuously for a long series of years * * * 
