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bringing the fresh cut leaves to the factory. A rubbish. basket for. 
ing away the exhausted leaves, which are thus carried to the pepper. 
plantations or Gambier fields for manure. A tub for holding liquid. 
Gambier; in this tub the Gambier is set. Stick of * Mahang” 
wood (Macaranga hypoleuca) used in setting the liquid. A coarse 
strainer used for taking the spen t leaves out of the boiler... A cocoanut- 
shell strainer fixed to a kind of sieve by the handle so that it hangs 
down in the boiling Gambier. When the larger débris has been taken 
out by the coarse strainer, the smaller bits drop into the cocoanut shell. 
and are then removed. 
The collection of vanilla pods in the Museum of Economic Dotany 
(No. ii.), has recently been revised and augmented by a series illustrating 
the principal kinds now known in English Piu including the following 
sorts :—Madagascar, Bourbon, Réunion, Mauritius, Seychelles, Bahia, 
Mexico, Java, „and “ vanillous ” (the less valuable sorts of vanilla). 
A large supply of the “butter nut” of British Guiana (Caryocar 
nuciferum) was received а Мг. G. S. Jenman, F.L.S., Superintendent 
of the Botanieal Gardens, Georgetown, Demerara. The tree yielding 
these nuts is a very үке timber tree as well аза fruit-yielding tree, 
. and its successful introduction to the tropical parts of the Old World, 
as been a matter of solicitude on the part of Kew for some years. An 
attempt made in 1888 apparently failed. The present supply of nuts 
as been distributed to the botanical establishments at Calcutta, Madras, : 
Оре, такса Ceylon, Mauritius, Singapore, Natal, while some 
were sown at Kew ; 
A very fine, and probably a unique, = of Yucca filifera was pre- 
sented to the Royal Gardens by Mons. de Falbe, Villa Valetta, Cannes, 
and placed in the Temperate House. “This specimen is 25 feet high, 
and about 3 feet in diameter at the base, It is a ша ificent oem in 
owing to injury during transit, it is hoped that it will оба, 
гесоуег. The ured in the Botanical Magazine, tab. 7197, 
men received at Kew in 1888. n it arrived it was 
apparently dead, and the trunk was placed in the E of ede 
Botany (No. iii). After remaining there for two years in 
eonaition it put out rudimentary leaves, and it imately flowered. 
The plant was then removed to the Tem ешрега where its 
inflorescence was fully developed in September 1890. 
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of Ramie as а possible industrial plant for India the Beaters of State 
for India in Council sanctioned an arrangement whereby the Assistant —— b 
