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as there are millions of trees in places beyond Portuguese control 
where at present natives brew and distil liquor to their hearts' 
content, without paying taxes to the Portuguese. 
& The following is extracted from the petition ipsum to, which 
was signed by 86 Portuguese and Indian landow 
‘Tt is notorious that neither industry nor niiet properly 
so-called exist in this territory. 
‘The plantations about Mozambique piee of small tracts of 
land, covered with cashew trees and cocoanut palms that grow 
and bear fruit almost E and require but the slightest 
care of the cultivator. Fermented liquor is obtained Tom both 
trees, oe that of the cashew is false distilled. 
‘The income and from ie industry is small, and ‘hardy 
does more than r the expens 
j Nevertheless it s the only agricultural mth Abe Rema 
by the landowners of this country as a means of liv 
necessary to point out that the dii of ‘this rio only 
c , cash wt 
n c n with profit, as experien 
frequently üéinehettalég. The aridity of the soil, irregularity of 
rains, as well as the absence of labour, are the chief causes of 
failure. 
Jicamilla.—-G. W. C. Griffith, Esq. H.M. Vice-Consul at 
Tampico, has sent to Kew a nu mbe er of tubers of the e plant bearing 
this name in Mexico, together with branches bearing fruit. The 
only record of this name in an English publication, which has 
come under our observation, is in the Pharmaceutical Journal, 
(Oct. 31, 1896, p. 381), epus it is referred to as Jatropha n 'gans. 
lt is uncertain what is meant by this name, because, so far as 
known, it has never P Published with a eru ded of the 
plant it is intended to designate. Curcas purgans (Jatropha 
Curcas), a well-known and widely ae dedi species, may possibly 
be intended, but the specimens sent by Mr. Griffith certainly 
belong to Jatropha macrorhiza, Benth. (Pl. Hartw. p. 
apparently a rare plant. It was collected by Hartweg in 1837, 
and his specimens at Kew are labelled with the locality, “Aguas 
Calientes " in i Mio Benthamian, and that of * Zacatecas" in the 
Hookerian MU. 
From a passage n Har tweg’s narrative of his journey (Trans 
Hort. Soc. Lond., ser. 2, iii. 1848, p. 120) it is clear that the latter 
statement is incorrect as far as Har artweg is concerned. The plant 
had, however, been previously collected by Thomas Coulter at 
Zacatecas (n. 1469), but his specimens were not distributed till a 
later eP having AE in the herbarium of Trinity College, Dublin, 
for some years. Mr. Griffith's were obtained from 08, a place 
lying to he south of the other localities named, in Wie extreme 
east of the State of Jalisco. Until these specimens came to hand 
none had been received at Kew since Hartweg’s were n billed 
some sixty years ago, although the area has been frequently 
collected over. | 
