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valleys. About 200 bushels of good parchment coffee were on hand, 
and next year the erop is expected to be much larger. 
amaica Walnut.—Jamaica has long been credited in a vague way 
with a native walnut; partly, perhaps, in consequence of Grisebach having 
referred (Flora of the British West Indian Islands, p. 177) his 
Picrodendron Juglans (Juglans baccata, Linn.), a simarubeous tree, to 
the Juglandee, and partly because Descourtilz (Flore des Antilles, vii. S 
p- 5, t. 453) bas a “ Noyer de la Jamaique,” which he refers to Juglans 
Frasinifotia, Puis Jo cer m fraxinifolia, Spach), an old world tree. 
C. de Candolle, (in DC. Prodromus, xvi. 2, p. 138), finding it was 
not Juglans fraxinifolia, described it under the name of Juglans 
jamaicensis. Consequent on this, Engler (Engler and Pranti Die 
Natürlichen een, iii. 1, p. 24), gives the distribution of 
= Tou Mage. © RP regions of the northern hemisphere, and 
in Jamaica. Sinteni 000) collected specimens of a veritable 
Jani in Poron LC M ausis in fruticetis ad Saltillo"). This is 
identified by Urban as the Juglans jamaicensis, CDC., though how 
he arrived at this is difficult to conceive, considering the very dissimilar 
eee plant crudely figured by Descourtilz. Grisebach, (Die Geo- 
graphische Verbreitung der Pflanzen Westindiens), records Juglans 
tein rom Cuba, and no other West Indian locality for this or any 
other species. This appears to have been admitted on the authority of 
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pecimens collected by Wright, under the name of Juglans insularis. 
e een enough this distinet species has been overlooked by later 
Respecting Juglans qme: CDC., Grisebach has à following 
note in the place cited: * Nomen J. jamaicensis, CDC. sola icone 
TADRE t. 453, formatum, gated im suas icones ex aliis operibus 
mutuare solebat, non — verum inter incerta relinquo." 
would be oe = know whether the Portorico tree is indigenous. 
There seem why it should not be ; and the specimen we have 
scen, may well be J. paea fi in a rather advanced state, and nearly 
glabrous, Ísdoð, we have no hesitation in referring it to that species. 
Destruction of Beer Casks in India.—Specimens of = staves injured 
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report published in the Kew Bulletin, 1890, pp. 182-189 (with wood 
euts).. Later, an insect, afterwards identified as the chief agent in cask- 
boring, was found to attack sugar canes in the West Indies, principally 
in Trinidad and Barbados. Its serious depredations, at the time, occa- 
sioned some alarm amongst planiers, and gave rise to much literature and 
correspondence. Mr. Blandford was 4 good. enough to examine into the 
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