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It is further uri to duplicate the filter-beds. "The sand in 
these requires to be washed periodically, and during this operation 
the water-supply is either curtailed or altogether in abeyance. 
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Finally, i E i doubt be necessary ultimately to enlarge the 
reservoir in “Rie ond Park so as to maintain a more copious head 
o Nose in Saar of great d ooghi, such as have been recently 
experienced. 
These partieilurs are put on record because, probably, few of 
the visitors to Kew realise the anxiety and expense which, in this 
and other matters, the maintenance of a great garden imposes on 
those who have the care of it. 
Chinese Bandoline Wood.—The origin of this curious product, of 
which a specimen has long been in the Museum of the Royal 
Gardens, has always been a puzzle. 
havings of the wood yield a mucilage, when soaked in water, 
which is used by Chinese ladies in “ bandolining” their hair. 
Dr. E. Bretschneider (Notes on some Botanical Questions con- 
nected with the Export Trade of China, 1880, p. 14) mentions the 
. Playfair, Esq., H.B.M. Consul at Ningpo, sent to Kew specimens 
in leaf of a tree, called “tiao chang,” which he had collected in the 
mountains near Ningpo, with the information that shavings of 
women of that part of China. These specimens were identified 
z Machilus Thunbergii, Sieb. et Zucc., and flow t ing specimens 
set a ibd received from the same gentleman confirmed the 
identifica tion. Mr. Playfair further adds, on “the authority of 
énry, that the Canton shavings are from the same tree. 
The species is a native of Hong Kon aes and DE westward 
to Szechuan, in China ; also of Formosa, Japan, and the Corean 
Archipelago. Owing to the interest stehne to. the identification, 
ae ey has been figured in Hooker’s Icones Plantarum, 
The following — from Mr. Playfair gives some 
further particulars 
H.M. Consulate, Ningpo, 
March 2 1896. 
My DEAR MR. THISELTON-DYER, 
PLEASE do not retain any doubt at all about the identity of the 
specimen I sent you of atiicling Thunbergit with the Chehkiang 
tree, but there is no dus that what I sent Yol does have a 
glutinous juice, for I tested the vd bci thoroughly before 
sending the eol piece. My en specimen was about 12 feet 
long, and the branch measured “quite in inches in Sek in 
