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Kino of smaller or larger angular transparent pieces of a deep garnet 
colour in thin fragments. Tt was not altogether unlike small broken 
dragon’s-blood in some respects, and the latter name has been used 
sometimes by natives and pins for some kinds of kino (from 
terocarpus indicus and P. erina 
* Not having been acquainted ases that time with kino-like products 
from the genus Mio and following the meno of Professor 
Warburg, who was then preparing a monograp “the Myristicaceze, I 
at once proceeded to a closer examination of Men new substance, availing 
myself of the latest dieran ons concerning the natural history of the 
different kinds of kino, pue lly of the drug derived from Pterocarpus 
Marsupium (Malaber kino). ot only on its external appearance but 
also in its behaviour to prs and other solvents, the * Kát jadikai" or 
kino from Myristica malabarica agreed almost entirely with Pterocar- 
kino, giving a reddish, slightly turbid solution of feebly but 
perceptibly acid reaction to litmus paper. ‘The other physical 
qualities, for the most part proved to be the same at those rigs by 
Hanbury and Fluckiger Rates e iios H. Tet 1879, 195). 
The may also be stated concerning the more impor tant and 
characteristic roc puit reactions when cone with the chemical 
aviour of official kin 
Professor Schaer had summarises the results of his prone 
into this and some other kinds, the produce of species of Myristi 
I. The ete Lee of the bark of several Asiatic dien of M; cud 
or ree malabarica, Lam., an . fragrans, 
TO PEE and physical qualities, show but little difference 
from the official Malabar Kin 
II. These substances, which may be termed Myristica Kinos, agree 
points, with the Kino of Pterocarpus Marsupium. Tt can therefore be 
stated that drugs of a very similar character, and partly of close resem- 
blance to official kino, are to be found in the families of Leguninose 
(Butea, Pterocarpus, Millettia), | Saxifragacee ( ( Ceratopetalum), 
Myrtacee (Eucalyptus, Angophora), and Myristic acem. 
e Myristica Kino differs, as far as can be observed from the 
smaller or larger amounts of a distinctly crystalline calcium salt, viz., 
calcium tartrate, suspended in, and depositing from, the liquid juice. 
By this charaeteristic admixture it can be easily rry dii from the 
official Kino, and probably also from other Kinos of comm 
hether this new substance might ever be obtained in combination 
with the production of nutmegs and mace, so as to play the part of a 
commercial drug, will depend upon a still better knowledge of its 
qualities, its formation in the living plant, its quantitive relations, 
and similar questions. 
DL.—CULTIVATION OF COTTON IN EGYPT. 
( Gossypium barbadense, L.) 
Next to the United States and India, Egypt is one of the important 
cotton- producing countries of the world. The quantity of Egypti jan 
cotton received in this country is about 2,000,000 ewts. annually, he 
