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(a.) Wax very thick, not distinctly divided into plates. 



i. With a large horn or spine . . C. ceriferusi 



ii. J^pine rudimentary C. albolineatus. 



(b.) Wax not [very thick, not distinctly divided into plates, size 



small C. floridensis. 



(c.) Wax not very thick, distinctly divided into plates. 



i. Broad and low, height less than half the breadth. 



C. depress us. 



ii. Higher, height more than half the breadth. 



C. cirripediformis- 

 C. plumbaginis. 

 ? C. jamaicensis. 



(G.) Wax not thick, and disappearing in old age ... C. denuclatus* 



UTILISATION OF BANANAS FOR MEAL, &c— II. 



In the July number of the Bulletin, the subject of Machinery for 

 making Banana Meal was discussed. 



Messrs. Hartogh and Asser were anxious to ascertain whether if thev 

 paid in Jamaica at the rate of 7d. per 100 lbs. for small bunches, in- 

 cluding the stalk, they could get a supply for a factory which they pro- 

 posed to start in the island. 



The Director of Public Gardens communicated with several planters, 

 and the general opinion was that the price mentioned would not pay 

 them to supply their small and unsaleable bunches. 



The following letters will show how far the subject is now advanced 



Mr. L. E. Asser to I) i rector of Public Gardens. 



The Hague, 12 October, 1894. 



Dear Sir, 



I am very much obliged for the papers you sent me with your letter 

 of 6th inst., and I must give you my warmest thanks for the great 

 number of letters you were kind enough to write to Jamaica, as I saw 

 by the many interesting answers you received. 



I read all the papers with the greatest interest and sent them after- 

 wards to Mr. Hartogh. 



We thick by reading the proceedings of the Committee of which you 

 were the Chairman, that the interest of making a flour is generally va- 

 lued very high, and that the principal objection was the high price and 

 the failing of the proper machinery necessary for manufacturing the 

 flour on a large scale. We are certain now that our process makes both 

 obtainable. Another point in view is that it is certain that a great deal 

 of unsaleale fruit is f c und in Jamaica ; the only objection is that the price 

 of 7d. per 100 lbs.* we have mentioned seems too low. If it is profitable 

 to give more depends very much on the possibility of finding a market 

 for the flour as food can be sold at the much lower prices we can now 

 attain. If the flour at the rate of $2 per ICO lbs., two or three pencef 

 more per 100 lbs. bananss could be paid, and I think by the answers- 



*For small bunches including stalk, 

 fi. e. 9dor lOd per ICO lbs. 



