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SECTION I. — Plaistts yielding Seeds, Leaves, and other Substances 

 employed in domestic use for the preparation op dietetic 

 Beverages, &c. 



Cocoa. — Botanical description and chemistry — Statistics of production in 

 various countries — Statistics of imports and consumption in the United 

 Kingdom — Culture in Trinidad — Statistics of exports from Trinidad 



— Production in the otlier West Indian Islands, Dominica, St. Lucia, 

 Grenada, Jamaica, Guadaloupe, and Martinique — French Guiana — 

 Culture in Venezuela — Statistics of production and export in Venezuela, 

 Ecuador, Brazil — Shipments from Para — Culture in the East — The 

 Philippines 1 



GuARANA. — Production in Brazil and other parts of South America — 

 Chemical composition of 26 



Coffee. — Production in the world at different periods — Statistics of con- 

 sumption in the United Kingdom — In countries of Europe, the United 

 States, and British colonies — Varieties of the plant — Systems of 

 cultivation in Java — Statistics — Sumatra — Celebes — Timor — The 

 Philippines — Culture in Ceylon — Acreage under coffee — Statistics 

 of value of manure imj)orted — Plantation and native coffee — Statistics 

 of production — Insect pests — Production in British India — Statistics 

 of land under coffee and the crops — Mysore — Travancore — Exports of 

 Indian coffee — Keunion — Arabia — Africa and its islands — Liberia 



— Natal — Productions in the West India Islands — Martinique, Guada- 

 loupe, Jamaica, Hayti, Cuba, Porto Eico, Trinidad, Dominica — Produc- 

 tion in America — Central America, New Granada, British Honduras, 

 Costa Rica, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Ecuador, British Guiana, French 

 Guiana, Bolivia, Venezuela — Brazil — Statistics of production and 

 exports — Supply to the United States — Production in Java — Com- 

 parative area and crops of Brazil, Java, and Ceylon 27 



Tea. — General remarks — Statistics of consumption in the United King- 

 dom — General production and consumption — Imports into the United 

 Kingdom, showing the producing countries — Culture in China — 

 Process of manufacture and preparation of the leaf — Shipments of 

 tea from Shanghai — American imports — Russian consumption — 

 Shipments from the fourteen Treaty ports — History of tea planting in 

 India — Assam — Progress of culture — Statistics of Indian tea exports 



— Tea planting in Cachar — Sikhim — Prospects in Ceylon, climate, 

 soil, labour, &c. — Straits Settlements — Java — First introduction of 

 tea plant — Statistics of production — J apan — Production and exports 



— Australia — Melbourne — Queensland — Jamaica — Brazil — North 



America — California — Instructions for manufacture 79 



' Yerba Mate, or Paraguay Tea. — Description of the tree — Mode of 

 preparing the tea — Statistics of production and consumption in 

 Paraguay, Brazil, and the Kiver Plate States 121 



