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71); palm weevil in British Honduras (K.B., 1893, 27); and sheep 
bushes and salt bushes (K.B., 1896, 129). In addition several articles 
ce, érh tea is made into balls as big as 
an's head, or into cakes; c eniti or tablet tea is Herriek 
from tea dust by steam machinery, while a es form known as brick 
tea is used in Chinese Mongolia and Tibet. o tea is not dd for 
making an infusion, but prepared wholly for. thence purposes. 
pickled tea, called Leppett tea, is eaten as a preserve with other articles. 
The white tea of Persia has been shown to consist of the undeveloped leaf- 
buds of China tea thickly coated with fine hairs giving them a silvery 
appearance. A singular bever sa TI as Faham tea is prepared in 
Mauritius from the leaves of an gp tpe Jr s) (KB, 
1892, 181). This is described as ca and a digestive ; it 
is even recommended in diseases of the reapinatoty shades The leaves 
themselves mixed with ordinary tea impart to them an extremely 
pleasant perfume. 
The discovery of seedling sugar-canes at Barbados (K.B., 1889, 242) 
has rendered it practicable to raise new serviceable varieties, and probably 
to improve the yield of this dee plant, A seedling raised at eon 
yielded eee results in Queensland, and has been largely propagated 
under the n of * Kewensis " (K.B., 1896, 167). The possibility of 
preparing a palatable butter from the oil of the cocoa-nut 
230), is an instauce of the advance made in the chemistry of familiar 
vegetable products. Canaigre (K.B., 1890, 63) will probably prove a 
perfectly useless. Amongst new economic plants should be mentioned 
Coffea stenophylla, the highland coffee of Sierra Leone ( K.B., 
189) which in certain localities may prove a formidable rival of the 
Arabian coffee. 
The publication of a note on Jarrah timber ( K.B., 1890, 188) has led 
to the extended use of this and similar Australian hard woods for the 
purpose of paving the carriageways of London streets instead of the 
cheaper but less durable white pine. The collections of Australian 
timbers in Museum III. were of special service in this direction. 
A paper on Watural Sugar in Tobacco (K.B., 1896, 49-55) recorded 
some sae facts of great novelty and interest, ‘and solved an important 
fiscal prob 
Dnucs. 
Many little-known drugs have been investigated. The seeds of 
Sophora secundi hn have a dtm use among the Indians of Lene 
where they are taken as an in ntoxieant. Half a seed is said to p 
exhilaration followed by sleep hindin two or three days (K.B. "1892, 
Derris elliptica, now growing in the MCTHL House at m yields 
the alayi fish poison known as “Aker Tuba” (K.B., 2, 216). 
From the account given of Natal Aloes and a the plants asi to 
yield this product (K.B., 1890, 163) it appears that it differs in some 
important respects from the more commonly known Cape Aloes. ‘The 
of the plant, also in the id igit ni yielding the true Star 
Anise of commerce is noticed (K.B., 173). e manufacture of 
quinine in India and the wide Steine at a nominal price of this 
valuable medicinal agent amorgst the natives (K.B. 1890, 29) is one 
