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Sir ALFRED Moroney to COLONIAL OFFICE. 
My Lorp Government House, Lagos, 25th June 1890. 
1 HAVE the honour to transmit for your ‘Lordship’ s information 
a сосну of an interesting botanical collection comprising 149 her- 
bari m specimens made by Mr. Alvan Millson on the occasion of his 
edn visit to the interior of Yoruba. The habitat may be view 
i" between 6° 40’ and 8° north latitude and 3° 40'—5* east longi- 
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2, Your Lordship will, I am sure, appreciate this further proof of Mr. 
Millson's zeal, and observe with satisfaction that his collection eit 
specimens of "several economie plants yielding gums, fibres, and dyes 
extensive daily use by the P and doubtless capable i in time of con- 
siderable commercial developmen 
3. The Yoruba courtry offers, as has been repeatedly pointed out, a 
field ready for enterprise and rich in the produets named, but it requires 
more freedom of inter-communication and the intelligent activity, 
interest, and ead be of the commercial ме brought to bear on 
its developmen 
4, 
ВЕ have always been alive to the importanee of 
9. the capabilities of the country with ‘small encouragements 
so far as regards practical result. For instance, attention has been often 
called 10 the large quantity of Ogea gum ( Paniai, sp.) in the country. 
At last,'even at the low local value of 214. p ;it would seem to be 
established as a growing article of export which began with 1885; the 
output of the Colony has been since as follow 
1886 - - t Ibs. 
907 ost o LM. 5 ; 
1888 = - 48,905 s 
1889 - - 110,766 „ 
The specimen of the Yoruba edible fig which J^ deseribed as of 
T Bh flavour " is most interesting ; its cu sige, E е botanic centre — 
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has already engaged the attention 1 of the Governm 
6. The botanical в ave аы. now forwarded may = “of local rather ihan — с 
of new scientific inter 
т. May I ask your "Lordship to be good enough to invite the Director : — 
of the Royal Gardens to have the esca named and to accept it from | a 
this Government for the Kew Herbarium. 
e column has been left in the vocabulary transmitted which I 
would Кел to be returned for the insertion of the scientifie name in on ‚о 
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(Signed) ALFRED FOE 
uae Right Hon. Lord Knutsford, G.C.M,G. . Governor, — 
