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shaved" so as to obtain a clean surface without injuring the 
cambium. At the upper part of the surface thus exposed longi- 
tudinal slits were made some four or five inches long and 
purs igi uei d to reach to the xylem. Streams of latex then 
ced t n down on the clean surface, which when 
DOMI der were collected by rolling into a ball. Every night 
for eight successive nights, the latex started afresh and was 
collected in the morning. The qu hend sies 8 to be greater 
after rainfall. It came without fresh cuttin 
Yours faithfully, 
The Direc (Signed) J: HS CHART. 
“petit re SS Kew. 
MESSRS. HECHT, LEVIS & KAHN TO ROYAL GARDENS, KEW. 
21, Mincing Lane, London, E.C., 
DEAR SIR, July 12, 1898. 
IN reply to your favour of the 8th instant, which only reached 
us this morning, we have examined the ball of Hevea rubber from 
Trinidad which you sent us and find the quality excellent i 2 every 
respect, clean, strong, and dry. is rubber would an it 
saleable in this market and would at the present 
a very high price, probably about 3s. to 3s. 9d. per lb, mee 
even à little m more. 
Yours faithfully, 
(Signed) HECHT, LEVIS & KAHN. 
BRITISH GUIANA. 
Hevea brasiliensis does not appear to have taken well in this 
colony. According to Mr. Hemsley there a at least two species 
of Hevea native of British Guiana. Hevea pauciflora, Muell 
aa has recently been described as a new species eue is Hevea 
re Hemsley (Hooker's Icones Plantarum, vol. vi., pt. iii., 
t pn gs. 1-3). This was collected by the Sohomburbs core 
by nds on the Mazaruni River, by Jenman on the Maza 
No. 621) and Essequebo Rivers (No. 133 2), and is now Mad 
cultivation at the Trinidad Botanic Gardens (Hart, No. 3554). 
eport vd “some of the Ru Misi kane Plants of British 
Guiana, by the Government Botanist," was published at the 
* Royal Greate” office, in ree eun in 1883. Later information 
on the same subject is included in a Report on * the Balata Industry 
of British Guiana," published in 1885. 
The following brief account of the rubber-yielding plants of 
British Guiana appeared in the Appendix to the Report of the 
West India Royal Commission, 1897 (Kew Bulletin, Additional 
Series I., pp. 34-35) :— 
The most promising rubber tree is the * Hatie.” This is found 
in the upper basin of the Essequebo and plana rivers, and. 
o fou e 
Pomeroon river, Mr, Saleen cates that eae a lange bee 
