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cloth that peculiar reddish Pina oaiae Rag ipn in the South. 
The value locally ranges fron $14 to $3 
“In 1891, the imports into ae rt Tonkin (distriets of 
Thatke and "Caobang) of shu-lang or faux gambier was 9,000 pienls, 
valued at 16,762 taels (over 500 tons, value 4, eg L The 1889 and 
1892 Reports give some further details as to the 
t Canton, the root is chiefly used pi "sine 2 cloth (z.e., the 
light fabric made phe om Behmeria) and the of silk material Kao 
as Cantons, bot much for sammer a thin ng. 
n the Chinese Tilustrated Botany (Chih-wu-ming, IX., 26) eed 
is figured and said to occur plentifully in cite mountains of .Fukie 
Kwangtung, and Kwangsi provinces. Its are described to be for 
dreina; fishing nets. The Chinese author eee un stem has small thorns 
and tha t the root is hairy. He is perhaps speaking of another species. 
imens now sent are Formosan roots, and are, I think, 
unquestionably Dioscorea rhipogonoides. The leaf s specimens, No. 105, 
were attached to theroot, so that there is no doubt about these n 
Mr. Ford is sure that the Canton root is from the same plant. I 
i no specimens at present of Annamese d lang ; these e be 
from Pakhoi or Canton 
Peb; 14 March 1894, AUGUSTINE HENRY, 
CCCCLXXVII.—MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 
The news has reached Kew of the death at the General Hospital, 
Madras, on the 17th August, of Mr. — JAwrESON, Curator of 
ens and Parks at Ootacamund, Nilgiris. Mr. Jamieson was 
53 years of age, and had s connected with the Ootacamund Gardens 
Bis nearly 27 years. He was formerly a member of the gardening staff 
t Kew and was appointed to Ootacamund in September 1868. He 
Et. in sole eharge of the gardens on the Nilgiris for “er years until 
they w ee placed under.the control of the present Dire 
mieson was a skilful and capable officer and his official reports 
-— Tal of valuable information. On taking over charge of the 
rtment in 1883, Mr. M. A. Lawson, M.A., the Director, bore the 
: CE inc AT to Mr. Jamieson's anii pr S I wish especially to 
record m galigations to the Curator, a Jamieson, - the loyal 
manner | erem he has on every occasio p d ing - 
the lertion I wished to introduce, and for e skill a qmod 
evinced in carrying out those iess to a 
kan imsar conclusion." 
Mr. Joun Horne STEPHEN, formerly of ra and lately Curator 
of the Lal Bagh Botanie Gardens at Bangalore, Mysore, has been 
appointed. Superintendent of the Publie Gardens m Nagpur, vM 
Provinces of India, in succession to the late Mr. J. R. War Ir 
He had only held his post since 1893, but had already won 
iid] regard ; his untimely death has cut short a career of promise, 
