206 
Products of India, va 4 iv., рр. 231-236. The plant is а herbaceous 
shrub apparently wild i e parts east of the Northern Ghats but 
largely cultivated for its fibre че India. The produce is chiefly 
by the agricultural classes locally. Dr. Watt, C.I.E., states that the 
fibre is soft, white, and silky and eminently suitable for the coarser 
textile purposes to which jute is applied. Were a demand to be created 
for this fibre as distinct from that of Sunn-hemp or other fibres the 
cultivation of the plant might be indefinitely extended, and with profit 
to many needy cultivators who are unable to produce either jute or cotton. 
The leaves of Hibiscus cannabinus are used as a pot herb while the seeds 
are sometimes exported from India to England as an oil-seed. 
CCX.—INDIGENOUS PLANTS OF YORUBA-LAND. 
Mr, Alvan Millson, Assistant Colonial Secretary of Lagos, West 
Africa, and lately a special commissioner to the interior of the native 
territory of roe has pr epared several interesting reports on the 
results of his An account of the soil and of the native agri- 
cultural industeles "el Yorv №: was printed in the Kew Bulletin “for 
October 1890, p. 238, and a list " Yoruba timbers with notes respecting 
the most interesting, was given in the Kew Bulletin for February 1891, 
р. 41. The botanical collections made by Mr, Millson in the Yoruba 
country, were transmitted to Kew and carefully examined. Although 
the collections did not ideis any striking novelties, there — to be 
several undescribed species, and better material thar Ben viously 
possessed, of a number of interesting i Speciall REVA are 
_ seed-vessels of 100 (Bombax) and of 85 (Triaspis) ; ftis poel 
censis (58) is new from Western Africa; 4 is probabl a new species 
lius?) is an interes ат from this region ; 139, of v w hich adverts 
are ay is perhaps a new genus of Euphorbiaces and near Micro- 
is (15); 42 and 135 are $ and g spei: À "d the little known 
унн ч s laxiflorus, of which the fruit was til unknown; 106 
is an Urticaceous plant which cannot be more "girly determined 
without better specimens ; finally, 89 is an undescribed genus of petaloid 
monocotyledons, imperfect specimens of which were collected by 
. @. Mann, ripe fruit (seed-vessels) of this is much wanted. 
UoroxiaL OFFICE to [^s GanpENs, KEW. 
Sin, owning Street, 13 ы uu 1890. 
I am directed by Lord Knutsford to transmit to a copy of 
a despatch from the Governor of Lagos with its dnd ле А а 
schedule, n is sent in original, of a botanical collection which has 
been made by Mr. Alvan Millson during his late expedition into the 
interior. 'The Crown Agents will чч — to send the specimens io 
you, if they have not already done 
I am, &c. 
The Director, (Signed) В. Н. Мелье, 
