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a day or two. The mountains he botanised over he described as lofty 
p covered with thick forest of immense trees, Bears occur there, a 
f : 
: it is not everywhere you come across plants you have not seen 
before alinost every day. The orchids are plentiful and rich in species. 
* This place is isolated in the extreme, and it takes such a time to 
receive letters. As regards stores, they come after delays of months. 
T have nearly finished all my shoes, and there are new pairs I hope 
all along the way, but they do not seem to c 
* [t is rather ver travelling about heres! as mules are cheap and 
numerous. I have just had a tent made for trips. The savage villages 
n the mountains it too dirty to stay eni even if one always found 
these queer a in the humour to take one in. hat I mean by 
o dirty’ is something awful, as I pit up quite comfortably with 
the huts of the Chinese in a im , which were comparatively clean. 
inaman is of course superior to these Shans, Lolos, Miao-tzu, 
in energy and various ihe: laudable qualities, but the Miao-tzu and 
true Lolos of the mountains have more pleasant manners in many ways, 
at bee I like their looks and way of talking. 
* Does no geologist ever dream of investigating these regions? 
Yunnan is well known for its mineral wealth. is easy enough now 
getting here from Hongkong by way of Tonkin ng." 
DXLIX.—KINO FROM MYRISTICA MALABARICA. 
An astringent, red, substance obtained from the sap of 
various trees of tropical DOLUS is known as Kino. The best medicinal 
kind which contains 75 per cent. of tannie acid comes from the Indian 
Kino tree Pterocarpus Marsupium, Roxb. while Bengal Kino is 
obtained in the form of round tears of an inten nse ruby colo our r from 
r, Malabar. 
n appearance the substance is very much like ton Ror oe from 
Pisétarpui Marsupium. It je since been examin by Professor 
Edward Schaer, of Strasburg, who has commun e an interesting 
account of it to the parcit ele Journal (ith s series, Vol. Ill. 
p. 117), from which the following extracts are taken 
« "dap or Warburg, of Berlin, has kindly forw do to me a sample 
of an extract or acoretióti resembling official Kino which with well 
known liberality had been put at his disposal by the director of the 
Royal Gardens, Kew. The sample in question labelled *Kát cred 
that is to say eutch- Tike product of jadikai (Tamil name for Myris 
and known to be produced by incisions in the bark of Myristica 
malabarica, Lam., in Southern India, showed in its aiara ap 
more direct analogy to the well-known Malabar Kino than to the * Kats 
of Acacia (Cutch) or of Uncaria (Gambier). It consisted like officinal 
