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in the gardens, as well as some in pots. Some of them flowered 

 that year, and this year one or two planted out fruited in November. 

 The fruit has never been described, and as it is very different from 

 that of C. asiaticum which otherwise this plant much resembles, I 

 give a description of it. It is obliquely pear-shaped 4 inches long, 

 narrowed at the base, and 3 inches through at the top which is 

 terminated by the perianth tube 3 inches of which remain. The 

 base is greenish on the inner side, the one facing the centre of the 

 bunch of fruits, the upper part claret coloured polished. It contains 

 three ovoid orbicular seeds each 2\ inch long, \ inch through, the 

 back rounded, the inner side hardly angled but flattened and 

 depressed. They are the biggest seeds of any Crinum I know of. 



The purple colouring of the pericarp resembles that of the pasture 

 land C. de/ixum and is absent from that of Crinum asiaticum in 

 which the pericarp is greenish white. The fruit and seed are very 

 much larger than those of C. asiaticum, in fact they are the largest 

 Crinum fruits I have seen. 



H. N. R. 



Lewis and Peat's Report on Plantation Grown 

 Rubber from Ceylon, the Straits and 

 Malay States for 1906. 



6, Mincing Lane, 

 London, January, 1<PV 

 There has been a great increase in the imports of Plantation 

 Grown Rubbers to London during the past year. The total . quanW) 

 being about 500 tons from Cevlon and Malaya, against about 200 

 tons during ,905, and also a few tons each from Java, Sumatra** 

 Southern India, and some small lots from the West Indies. A°oui 

 350 tons of this were sold at public auction. The range ot price 

 has not been as high as those realized during 1905, and the difference 

 between Fine Para from the Amazon and Plantation Gn»n» 

 been reduced from about 1/ per lb. to A d @ 6d per lb. Buyers are 

 now much more particular about quality and appearance, and* neu 

 formerly practically all grades fetched the same 9™*>™JL 

 and unsightly or mixed lots of biscuits and sheets do .not rea 

 within 3d. or 4 d. per lb. of the better lots. It is very satisfy 1 

 report that practically all prejudice against CrSpe has disappj** 

 and good pale has been £ £££ demand, also the lower gi>*j 

 have been selling extremely wdl * It is better for planters , to j« 



m^'W^ ^ bisCuitS ° r Sheet \ and S^oSS 



made into Crepe is realizing a better price than the or* ; 



market and is readily saleable. Prices realized have been aW> g 

 _fer lb. above biscuits and sheets, but we do not I00K 

 a premium. 



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