"which carry on a wholesale trade in liquorice, and two of which have 



erected extract factories in this country. 



Annually there are produced ahout 108,339,000 pounds of raw 

 liquorice, which, after drying, yields 36.113.000 pounds of marketable 

 merchandise. For raw liquorice the factories pay on the average 

 11 cents per 100 pounds* 



Production of Spirits from Mulberries. 

 The production of spirits from cs, and other 



fruits depends upon the yearly result of the vintage, as the producers 

 seek to repair the eventual loss in wine and wine-spirits by substituting 

 tiic above-named fruits. The production during the last five years 

 averaged about 65,0'. K) vedros (211,18o,0C0 gallons) of mulberry spirits 

 free from water. The other fruits are used for this purpose only in 

 inconsiderable quan t it ics. 



CCCXXXIV.— MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 



Borneo. — The Right Rev. the Bishop of Singapore and Sarawak 

 (Dr. Hose) has forwarded to Kew a parcel containing 46 dried 

 specimens of ferns, collected by him at Mount Dulet, Sarawak. Six 

 species have proved to be new ; descriptions of these by Mr. J. G. 

 Raker, F.R.S., will appear in the Decades Kewenses, given at 

 intervals in the pages of the Kew Bulletin. 



for the Herbarium through Dr. K. Keck, 



India.— From Mr. J. F. Duthie, F.L.S., Director of the Botr 

 Department, Northern India, comes a collection of upwards of 

 specimens of dried plants collected by him in Kashmir. 



tor of the Botanical Museum, 

 specimens of Mexican plants, 

 of* the new species of glasses 



