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The matter has often been investigated at Kew, and the accompanying 
documents are now published for general information. 
Watts Dictionary of the Economic Products of India (v. i, pp. 
522-528) may be consulted advantageously on the subject. 
Prof. FERDINAND Coun to Royat GARDENS, Kew 
eosque a eer rei Institut der Kel. 
Universitat, Breslau 
Dear Sm, ' January 80, 1894. 
CAN you give me some weit. to which "species belong the 
seeds which come into commerce from East India, for the purpose of 
extracting oil in our European ibérico ofi under the name of Indian 
Colza (Indischer it o The seeds are different from our common 
Brassica Napus; they seem to be produced by several species or 
varieties of Crucifere, their testa being y, red, or yellow. lbegt 
nd speci soft samples pore, Guzerat, and Ferozepore) 
an 
Indian * Rape " for the extraction of oil; our farmers assert the cakes 
to be injurious to cattle, and to contain mustard seeds ; hence law-suits. 
I suppose I may get from the collections of your Museum authentic 
information, and perhaps also little specimens of the well-defined species 
f seeds. 
leve, me, &c. 
(Signet). Pror. FERDINAND COHN. 
Extract from Kew Report for 1877, p. 34. 
Guzerat Rape.—Inquiry has been made both in England and in 
Germany with regard to a ine os E aa into the a market 
nder this 
KETGIM, Ti jas identified | as the seed of Brassica (Sind pis 
glauca, Roxb. This species is undoubtedly m i a local variety of 
the common rape, and must be referred, the as is done in the 
Flora of British Indio, val: i., p. 156, to Draticé aftan Linn. 
first sight the seed as im ported resembles a ee " ordinary rap? 
with white Gerd, and it has even been taken to be e careful 
examination of Dr. Wittmack, however, shows ' conclusively that the 
structural characters of the seeds are those of r and not of white 
mustard, and there is reason to suppose that the "white as well as the 
dark seeds are all the produce of the same plant (Sitz. d. Gesellsch. 
Naturf. Fr., January 16, 1877). Guzerat rape seed has been crushed 
at Danzig, and is found to yield 3: : per cent. more oil than rape; the 
cake also yields 10 per cent. fatty matter and 34 cent. EDO 
both being in excess of the amounts yielded by ordinary ra 
Wittmack, however, remarks, that as the seed has a distinct fidc of 
mustard, the cake may not be very suitable for cattle feeding. 
CCCLXVII.—AGRICULTURE IN BRITISH 
HONDURAS, 
An account of the resources of British Honduras was printed in the 
Kew Bulletin for November last (1893, pp. et eig In the ey 
Report for the year 1892 (Colonial Office Reports, Annval, No. 9 
1893), the Administrator gives a further tateruiting note on ee 
ieultural condition of the Colony. The singularly undeveloped con- 
dition of this British possess'on in Central America, first settled as long 
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