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and the numerous references contained in it to the plants and. plant- 
products noted by him in the journey inland up the Poh Chung river. . 
2. Mr. Parker states on page 9 that “another peculiarity of this 
* region is the ubiquitousness of the dw arf Pandanus, probably the 
* js used in the. manufacture of * grass-cloth,’ and is usually kno 
“ foreign trade here as *hemp.' " In the marginal note this is described 
as “cloth from the wild pine-apple.” 
. As the various plants yielding what is locally known as * hemp” 
in different parts of China are now in course of being investigated at 
ew, Mr. Thiselton Dyer would be glad to receive dried specimens 
ofthe fibre as it usually appears in trade at Kiungehow. The latter 
would be placed for reference in the’ Museum of Economic Botany 
attached to this establishment. 
I have, &c. 
Sir, Villiers Lister, К. C.M.G., (Signed) D. Morris. 
Foreign Office, S.W. 
Forricn Оргетск to Roya GARDENS, KEW. 
бів, . Foreign Office, November 4, 1891. 
Wirn reference to the letter from. this Department on. the 23rd 
of чо з I am directed Ьу the е of Salisbury to transmita 
ers is made from the fibre of the pine-apple, and not of the Pandanus. 
The parcel of specimens alluded to in Mr. . Parker's Membre has 
not yet AUC but will be forwarded кен it is receiv 
| (Signed) x T. H. SANDERSON. 
“W. T. Thiselton Dyer, Esq., 
Kew Gardens. 
[Enclosure-] 
Report вх Mr. CONSUL PARKER, Kiunecnow. 
The i inquiry instituted by the Kew authorities has led to the discovery 
that the finer kinds of “hemp” which are er sae hence are the fibre 
of the рро. and not of the Pandan 
M in his Customs Report 1877, does, indeed, mention 
this “ pinsati bre" other two Commissioners refer to it as “ hemp.” 
Mr. Commissioner Neumann, in his Report for 1889, says: 
it to be the same plant Pandanus of Y which colony I have 
recently visited. I now find, however, that the Fij аңы ч only make ma 
out of the P. odoratissimus ; and the T dows ot 
n9 w, 7 
Hoihow is useless except for quss and fuel. ` it is said that, some- 
where inland, mats are made of 1 it here, and that its root is used in the 
pea as a febrifuge. Pare No. 4 contains a few leaves of 
this разы) tha, i tin box c fruit, which seems to mature 
from April to September at least, if not ai ыы the year.: 
