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In St. Lucia, Hooper records the presence of the same tree, 
where he says it is known as “Gommier à canots.” There are 
in 
Exhibition at Edinburgh, in 1884, as “Gum opal.” In Dominica, 
Ramage ol cette specimens of leave es and. flowers, which are 
_labelled * Gommier rouge," and, he adds, “rich in:.a very 
inflammable gum. ^ There are also specimens from Martinique 
and Porto Rico. In 1885 the Director of the Botanical Depart- 
ment in Jamaica forwarded to Kew Lepra received from 
of a tr 
Professor Oliver believed to be Dacryodes sandra, with the 
information that a resin similar to that sent had been valued in 
aa > p 6d. per pound. The amount of resin, ne to 
nvan, ordinarily obtained in Montserrat is very small. It 
is possible that elsewhere, and from very old trees, ita may be 
decas in danger quantities In March last, leaf specimens of the 
me species were ved from Professor Tilde n, of the Royal 
College of tikino, Both Kensington. In forwarding them to 
Kew for identification, Professor Tilden stated : “The resin pre- 
sents some points of chemical interest, and might be of some 
ees value if obtainable in quantity. It resembles Gum 
e gums animi and copal of commerce are well-known 
hate fossil resins found on the East and West Coasts of Africa. 
They differ sanamay À in texture — the soft resinous gums 
obtainable from these West Indian tree 
(3.) A third | veg of West Indian incense trees is Protium 
guianense, March. This is not recorded under that name in the 
Flora of the British West Indian Islands. It is probably the 
plant recorded by ch as Icica prec Ape MS 172). 
Specimens of a variety of it were received fro a from 
Hooper 886. Previously it wa bicis Ss “he Kew 
Herbarium fro Lucia, communicated b n, and al 
from the collection of Bishop Goodenough, but without a locality 
This plant was figured and described in oker’s Icones Plan- 
tarum, t r. Hooper sent it as the * Gommier l'encens, 
of St. 
typical 
America, M rding to Marchand, it affords the “ ar 
(sic) huilense degen and a resin called ‘Encens de Cayenne." " 
very similar fro d Spree in the Kew Museum is 
labelled * Teeniaitianea.” "The tr e was found in British Guiana 
by Schomburgk and pei op Iti is desirable that further i iie 
be made respec cting the urrence of the plant in St. Luc 
and some of the resin iid ue be yielded by it might be forwüsdad 
for examination to this country. 
