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weight of one basket being 14 viss, and get Rs.5 to Rs. 6 for the 
journey 
Conclusion.—It will be seen that, as in most trades, ih sienna 
are the best off and absorb most of the profit. trader 
makes, even if he does not go in for the advance arenes over cent. 
per and of course his profits are doubled if he does. The 
Thaungdut Sawbwa has, I am told, petitioned the Government to be 
allowed to levy transit dues on the tea-seed passing through his State, 
though on what be bases his claim to the right I fail to see. No 
haungdut coolies or men in any way are interested in the trade, the 
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to collect six annas per basket in i Ma times; this statement is 
if they succeed that will settle all matters of transit dues both for 
Thaungdut and Manipur. T see no reason why the Bombay-Bur 
should not succeed, as no care to prevent shaking, the effects of damp 
or of heat, is taken, any way iei to the seed reaching Manipur, by 
the present method, which seems to be as unscientific as pe — 
yet the tea-seed has; as is well ASA a first-class reputatio 
way, of course, wou ns hes money on the fo ollowing season's 
crop, this system being tom, or else only the leavings and old 
seed which has been lyi te f bot can be got, vm naturally would not 
a of the gardens quer were wonderfully healthy 
considering the little care taken with them, as with the exception of 
the parasite referred to, the trees all seemed clean, vigorous, and full of 
leaf. he ld say tea-planting wit o m s would be a 
ed success if only the labour question could be successfully dealt 
wi at once settled, all a r who pro lanting in the 
Chindwin would have to d o Án for red earth, and 
from my own exp ui of the forests I am ave come across 
several tracts of similar earth to — on Wise the tea is grown. 
enclose a specimen of the tea parasite 
CCCCXCVII.—DECADES KEWENSES 
PLANTARUM NOVARUM iN HERBARIO Horti Ream CONSERVATARUM. 
DECAS XXIII.—XXV. 
221. Uvaria virens, N. E. Brown [Anonacee] ; ramulis pilis minutis 
fasciculatis ferru ugineo-pubescentibus, foliis petiolatis oblongis obtuse 
acuminatis basi plus minusve rotundatis undulatis junioribus subtus 
* Not received. 
