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roi^e is coiled up into cylindrical rolls of about two feet in 

 length and one foot in diameter. Porto Eico, Puerta Ca- 

 bello, Maracaibo^ and Varinas Eoll^ are all most probably 

 produced by the perennial tobacco of Buenos Ayres, li. 

 glauca, and not improbably from other native species. 

 Colour light brown. 



Cuba, Yara, and Havana. — This tobacco, of which the 

 fine Havana cigars are made, is the produce of the annual 

 species, reimncla, a native of Cuba; it is the N, lyrata of 

 some authors. Colour dark brovv^n. 



Peruvian and Chilian. — Probably from andicola^ a 

 native of the Peruvian Andes, 



Asiatic Tobaccos : — 



East Indian and Alanilla is produced from N, rustica, 

 var. /8, Asiatica, The iV". mstica is a native of Europe, Asia, 

 Africa, and America ; there are several varieties of it, but 

 the one indicated is that which is most generally cultivated 

 in India : the leaf is much smaller than the common Ame- 

 rican species, and is ovate instead of lanceolate; one of 

 the varieties is often cultivated in this country as a garden 

 plant. Colour dark brown. 



Persian or Shiraz. — This highly valued sort, occasion- 

 ally received from Turkey, is produced by N, Persica ; the 



