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itis Vt od of rubber might be produced. The milk of a tree 
t n as “ Touckpong,” or * Cumakaballi," is sometimes 
ves with balata milk, but it is not separately prepared. A 
specimen of rubber obtained by Mr. Je nman from a large twining 
plant known locally as ** Macwarrieballi," RE determined to be 
Forsteronia grac ilis, ae received at Kew in 1888. It was shown 
that if the plant from which this rubber was perpung existed in 
any quantity in the interior of the Colony, the collection of the 
rubber would be a Ma promising commercial undertaking (Kew 
Bulletin, 1888, pp. 6 
is very desirable that all these rubber trees should be care- 
fully and exhaustively investigated in order to find out their true 
value. It is probable that it may be found profitable to establish 
natural plantations in districts where the best rubber trees are 
already found. This could be done with little difficulty, and it 
offers the best means “of immediately extending the area under 
rubber trees in different parts of the Colony. Where plants are 
plentiful it would only be necessary to clear away some of the 
conditions are favourable, and the plants only sparsely found, 
wild seedlings might be transplanted or dirae seeds * dibble ia in” 
at intervals to fill the vacant places. The cost of this pen 
ia 
n nsid 
after they were well start 
DCXXVI—MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 
The Secretary of State for en in Council has appointed, at 
the nomination of Kew, e te RLES ALFRED BARBER, B.A., 
F.L.S. Professor of Bota Indian Civil T ib College 
(Forestry Branch), and (1891.5) Superintendent of the Agricultural 
Department of — of the Leeward Islands (Kew Bulletin, 
1891, p. 245), to be Government Botanist, Madras, in succession to 
Mr. M. A. Lawson, Wo. died 1896 (Kew Bulletin, 1896, p. 185). 
Mr. ROBERT EVANS GRESSON, a member of the gardening 
staff of the Royal Gardens, has been engaged as head gardener by 
Archibald Findlay, Esq., for his garden in Durban, Natal. 
Foreign Estimation of Kew.—The Paris Journal L'Eclair gives 
the following account in its issue for August 17th of the organisa- 
tion n botanical work in British Colonies and of its relation to 
Ke 
“Les Anglais sont arrivés, en ce qui pee la culture et la 
pro tion des plantes tropicales, fe créer une organisation 
pea uec donnant des résultats parfai 
“Tis ont établi dans chacune de gar colonies des établisse- 
ments bas nor doak le but - d'utiliser les ressources de la 
