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Ipecacuanha in the Straits Settlements.—The first commercial 
sample of this drug produced in the Old World found its way into 
the London market in 1887 (Kew Bulletin, 1888, p. 128). Johore 
was, it was believed, the source of the c consignment. Nothing has 
been heard of it till the Jh during the present year of the 
following information 
ExTRAOT Pe letter from Director, Gardens and Forest 
ingapore, to Royal Gardens, Kew, dated February 16, 
1898. 
“I thought that the cultivation of Ipecacuanha here had gone 
out, but one of our best planters tells me he has not only got 
a very fairly extensive garden of it, but is going on on a much 
larger scale. It was fo rmerly cultivated by him at fan cea in 
Johore, but it has bier moved to Selangor, where it grows well 
and pays too, as he gets full price of 10s. per Ib.’ 
zr hata v de m note on hybrid coffee in Mysore was recently 
published in the Kew Bulletin (1898, p. wir Würde D n the 
4 Bur orded a 
elean eget (1898, p . 164), Dr. reco milar 
hybridization of Svinte and decem ie: in Java. The r results 
in that island are, however, not considered so favourable as in 
Mysore. In Java the hybrid piante are a 2 ipee very 
sparingly, while some are quite barren. err F. von Braun is 
quoted as stating that “of the many hundred hybrid | Sanu in the 
experimental gardens at Tjikeumeuh, near Buitenzorg, a few only 
produce fruits." On the other hand, grafted een ( Arabis 
coffee on Liberian B are said to be very promis 
Hybrid coffee plan appear to have been also pr Ti in the 
West Indies, but Lotti is stated as to their productiveness. 
EXTRACT from letter from Curator, Botanic Station, Dominica, 
io Royal Gardens, Kew, dated June 8, 1898. 
* | noticed in the Kew Bulletin a note on hybrid coffee in 
Mysore. It will interest you to hear that there is a coffee grown 
in Martinique which is said to be a hybrid between the Arabian 
and Liberian kinds. A gentleman here obtained a small plant of 
it for me, and I am now growing it at big: Station. The leaves 
of my small plant are as large as the leaves of Liberian coffee, but 
in appearance they are similar to the leaves y ne rabian coffee, ant 
like the latter are badly attacked by the coffee 
Florida Velvet Bean. Under this name a leguminous plant has 
been prominently recommended in American omen as a forage 
plant and as admirably adapted for green crop manuring. Recently 
the beans have been offered for sale in this country. As frequent 
referetodd have been made to Kew, it is desirable to place on 
record what is known of the plant and its capabilities. As to its 
identity, it was from the first conjectured that the seeds belonged 
to a plant very near the common purple-flowered Cowhage or 
Cow-itch plant of the tropics, Mucuna pruriens. The difficulty, 
in the absence of adequate specimens, in identifying it with this 
