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long time must elapse before the enormous qi come of 
additional material can- be worked out. Dr. A. Henry has 
recently ser nted a further collection of some 2,500 n piin 
which, he estimates, contains about 2,000 species. “This vodenti4e 
is from Eastern Yunnan, and it has been geo classified an 
some of the more striking novelties taken out for early publica- 
tion in Hooker’s Icones Plantar m. The novelties are numerous, 
but no distinct or obviously new Cos Dui type was detected in the 
sorting. Messrs. Bourne, Carles, Ford, and Hancock, and othe 
mc have sent smaller, though not less interesting, 
collections 
Incense Trees of the West Indies.—There are apparently several 
very Manap plants known as “Incense trees" in the West 
(1.) The most widely distributed and best known plant is 
Bursera gumnmifer a, L. BICI ara This is the * Birch tree " 
of Jamaica, the * Gommier" of the Windward and Leeward 
Islands , and the “ Teee e tree " n St. Vincent. There are 
specimens in the Kew Herbarium also from Cuba, Florida, Mexico, 
st 
deciduous tree, from its clean stem and its habit of Bren e 
only at the top adapted for live telegraph posts. As a timber used 
in coopering." Macfadyen states that all parts of the tree Cee 
a gum capable of being substituted for gum-mastic as a transparent 
varni Museums there are * ote x fn E 
Dominica, said to contain the resin of this tree wrapped in leav 
of the Balisier (Heliconia sp.), and in the spathe of Kuterpe rias 
tana. Itis do gdis whether this resin in every case is really 
fr rom Bursera gummifera. Dr. Imray, who has also eirg a gum 
resi n fr om Bursera pE i refers to it as “ the large Gommier 
tree. 
(2. In order to distinguish it from the incense ded e. she forge 
lands, there is another tree calle d the * Mounta 
but often simply “the Gommier." This is (me les erandri 
M also belonging to the natural order Burse Gri ch 
- from Dominica specimens as a eene pue 
10 to 15 feet high, The size here given is ove an error. It 
is correctly described by Hooper in his report on the forests s 
Grenada and ya acon, oa 6, as follows : * The tree locally know 
as *Gommier' is also commonly represented in the forest, d 
grows a he dimensions, a dae of 9 feet bene general with a 
ight of 150 fee Well grown Gommiers are found on the 
nase ownd Tes at the Gread ‘Wend (1, 800 feet). It is used 
for canoes, being hollowed out for the purpose, also in flooring 
and for roofing shingles." "The occurrence of this iree in Grenada 
is referred to in the Kew Bulletin (1891, p. 149). 
In July last, specimens of the resin of Dacryodes hecondve, 
st hig from tr trees growing in the Annandale Woods, Grenada, 
e forwarded to Kew by Mr. W. E. Broadway, Curator of the 
n lotenio Station. 
