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have been misdirected. I have observed this shrub for a number of 
15 feet high, but I can firmly assert that an old salt bush 
елена parabolica) would at the same age have produced about 
inount of a superior fodder, ap would grow in even more 
isi panna of drought and hea 
Extract from the Report of the Dursan Botanic SOCIETY. 
In my report for 1889 I gave some particulars about this plant, wen 
by the kindness of Messrs. Miller & Co e of Las Palmas, 1 obtained 
a bag of seed for distribution. This was divided into packets, each 
containing enough to plant about half ir. acre of ground, and of thes 
с ave been sent out free to applicants, chiefly i in the санай 
and upland ty including five to Transvaal. It succeeds well in 
all parts of Natal. A c oe ed in Madeira, where the plant has 
been lately introduced, s says:— It is now thriving well with us, and 
* sheep are simply mad for - It thrives in the suramer heat without 
ves Мн wood, gr 
* &. Its tight shade нанай. е grasses in dry w eather. I 
* consider it one of the be st fodder d all ша plants that have ever 
* been introduced here.’ 
CCXVI.—KANGRA BUCEWHEAT. 
(Fagopyrum tataricum, var.) 
In January 1890 there was received at Kew a packet of seed of a 
partieular kind of Indian Buckwheat bipes 579 іп some respects 
from the ordinary sorts of Fagopyrum m, Gertn. Mr. J. Е 
Duthie, F.L.S., Director of the Botanical поке of Northern India, 
sbg whom the packet was received, was gi enough to supply 
ое particulars respecting the origin and characteristics of 
this buckwheat. The ordinary buckwheat (Fagopyrum esculentum, 
ме is ыт е cultivated on the Himalaya, where it forms a 
in O 
season crop, being sown in July and ihe ctober. The 
back Wheat of the higher Himalaya appears to be Fagopy rum tatari- 
сит, бетш. The Kangra Buckwheat is a variety of dido latter 
species. 
DIRECTOR OF THE pee ж» Northern India, to 
YAL GARDENS, Kew 
Camp, Phase District, 
| ral Provinces, India, 
My mee DYER jy een ber 19, 1889. 
м sending you a packet of a prane kind of че: эр 
Fagop tataricum (var. nov. according to Regel) A sample of 
this kind was sent from nee npore to to St. дыдыды їп 1878, along 
ve numerous other seeds and vegetable products which were re collected 
