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667. Eriospermum tulbaghioides, Baker [Liliacem]; a speciebus 
reliquis recedit filamentis quadratis emarginatis. 
Tuber globosum, 2 poll. diam., cortice sordide brunneo. Folium 
post scapum productum, lor nge petiolatum, lineari-oblongu 
5-6 poll. longum, 15 lin. latum, subcoriaceum, glabrum, apice 
ED pd Pedunculus gracilis, ene ae Racemus oblongus 
subdensus, pedicellis erecto-patentibus 3-4 lin. longis, bracteis 
deltoideis minutis. Perianthium dere 2 lin gm ongum, segmentis 
lineari-oblongis. Stamina perianthio triplo breviora, filamentis 
quadratis emarginatis rubris, antheris oblongis par 
SOUTH AFRICA. Cultivated at Kew from om sent by 
Mr. Charles Howlett, of Uitenhage, in 1895. 
668. Ornithogalum subspicatum, Baker [Liliacee]. This n 
is substituted for that of Ornithogalum Galpini, Baker (Flora "t 
"pensis, vi. 526), which had already been used for another 
species (7.c. 516). 
DCXII.—FIJI INDIA RUBBER. 
In the Kew Report for 1877, p. al, it is stated that a specimen 
of native caoutchouc had been received from Sir Arthur Gordon 
(now Lord Sanare), Governor of Fiji. This is still in the 
Kew Museu t was favourably. mM upon at the time 
character as the higher grades of African rubber. If free from 
water admixture ibd impurity the Med would be Is. 6d. per 
und,” This was twenty-one years ago. At the present time 
the price would seine “be 2s. or 2s. Gi, per pound. After so 
promising a beginning it was hoped that a successful rubber 
industry would he established in the Fiji E Si So far, 
however, this expectation has not been realize 
It was xem that the tree from which the rüber was obtained 
* was very common in the islands." In 1878 Mr. John Horne, 
F.L.S., then Director of the Botanie Gardens at Mauritius, visited 
Fiji and paid particular attention to their economic resources. 
A report on the C2outchoue or India rubber plants is published 
as an Appendix to his “Year in Fiji” (London, Stanford, 1881), 
pp. 195-202, 
The Fijian n name for caoutchouc is **drega," and the 
juice kau ” is generally applied to all trees that have a eroe 
Horne found a species of Tabernemontana (since named 
T. Mur Hone Baker, Journ. Linn. Soc. XX., 368), with white 
flower and a reddish- -yellow berry about 5 inch diameter. * When 
wounded a thin milk-white juice exudes which yields a small 
quantity of caoutehouc." Locally UA wa is carts as “Kau Drega,” 
or “Talotalo.” Mr. R. L. Hol (in the enclosure to the 
Governor's despatch of the 15th April, 1898) speaks of it as 
“decidedly our best rubber-yielding tree." He adds: “ It grows 
to a large size. Those that I saw were up to 18 inches or 2 feet 
through at the base. It is found scattered in the forest on the | 
hills and valleys, but is not gregarious.” The specimen of rub 
