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‘One Chinese catty ge Ibs.), 100 or about 75 ticals. Class II. Half the 
price of Class I. Class IJI, Half the price of Class II, The price in 
Bangkok | is:—Class I. One Chinese catty, 260 ticals, as it has always 
The G Gum Benjamin trees that grow in the jungle districts referred to 
are not the subject. of disputed ownership by one person more than 
another. Any one who wishes to work Gum Benjamin has merely to 
fs ọ into the jungle, search for and notch as many trees as he pleases, 
B pepnle, fo example, who go into the jungle to eut posts for their 
dor is there any tax or other emolument accruing to the 
mud from either the trunk or the gum of the Gum Benjamin tree; 
ww is the Guni Benjamin trade one in the prosecution of which much 
thieving or fighting arises, whether it is because there are many g 
together at a time, or because, being in the. jungle where there are 
fierce tigers, one man cannot sk along alone by himself, but is obliged 
to travel with bein and so robbery and theft are ren ered impossible, 
is uncertain. This gum is sweet-scented, and is much used in mixing 
either with medicines or scents of various kinds. For whichever of 
of commerce which merchants have pong and sold from. time im- 
memorial to the present day. 
CCCCLXXIII.—MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 
In the Kew Bulletin for February last (p. Mons an account is ive 
of a small collection of dried plants made by Mr. F. H. SMILES, a 
gentleman attached to the Royal Survey Department of Siam. : mongst 
them was a remarkable scitamineous plant, upon which a further note 
will be found below. Mr. Smiles returned to Siam in December last 
2 the d E making further botanical collections. We regret 
m a a letter communieated to us by a friend that ** while - 
abate Poloni Siam, he died of dysentery in May last.” It w 
ebifidently- icipated that he would have added -considerably to our 
write of the rich flora of Upper Siam. For nearly a quarter of a 
century we have endeavoured to procure from thence seeds or plants of 
the celebrated tree yielding Siam Benzoin, but so far without m 
s - 
~ Botanical Magazine,—All the figures in the July number were drawn 
from plants that flowered at Kew. Senecio Hualtata is a gigantic 
herbaceous plant, native of Chili and the Argentine Republic. “Tt was 
raised from seeds s presented by Mrs. Ayseoghe Floyer of Basingstoke, 
and. colleeted by her daughter, Mrs. Sun e Williams, at Vipos, about 
I9 miles north of the city of Tucuman. Pyrus crategifolia is an 
elegant shrub or small tree, a native of Northern Italy, and so much 
e.a thorn in appearance that one would po take it for a 
Crategus. ‘Aristolochia ungulifolia is singular in a genus remarkable 
for Ls: ime in shape and. size of the perianth. It is a native 
a as sent to Kew by Mr. H. N. Ridley, Director of 
sten and Forests 1 in the Straits Settlements. _Neuwiedia Griffithit, 
alacea, i ! 
ll tribe of the. Orchidee, having free stam This was also 
ected and sent to Kew. by Mr. H.N . Ridley, "The o last figure is of l 
