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deposit with the Surveyor General the sum of £ , being one-fifth 



of the price of the said land and agree to be bound by and to c inform 

 to the within rules in respect of my purchase. 



Dated this day of 189 . 



COLLECTING JUICE OF PAPAW. 



By F. B. Kilmer. 



Cut an incision lengthwise of the fruit. The incision not to be over 

 an eight of an inch deep. If it is made much deeper, the milk is apt 

 to be carried into the fruit and not run outside. The milk will run 

 quite freely for a short time, but soon coagulates so that it will no 

 longer run. To catch the milk that drops and flows I place under the 

 tree, tin pans made in such a way as to surround the trunk of the tree 

 and catch the dripping milk. 



I found it well to tap the fruit early in the morning before the sun 

 was very high as the sun quicidy dries the milk and stops the flow. I 

 found that it was a good practice after the flow had ceased, to brush off 

 all of the c agulated milk into the pans and make a fresh incisi n, and 

 you would gel; another but a smaller yield. I make the scorings about 

 one-half inch apart all round the fruit. The time to tap the fruit is 

 before it is ripe and when it is green and full. The yield is much 

 larger just after a rain stoim or a spell of wet weather. Si ill you can 

 tap a green fruit at any time and get more or less of the white milk. 



This milk must be dripd the same day that it comes from the tree 

 and must be dried in the sun. Artificial heat will not do. It can be 

 dried right away on the tin pans spread out thin, or spread out on 

 sheets of glass. It will drj' in an hour or so in the sun. Any amount 

 of exposure in the sun will not harm it in drying, but artificial heat 

 destroys it. If it should so be in gathering, that owing to stormy 

 weather it cannot be dried in the sun the day it is gathered, you can mix 

 it with some naptha or benzine so-called, turning it into a sort of milk. 



FERNS . SYNOPTICAL LIST— XLV. 



Synoptical List, with descriptions, of the Ferns and Fern-Allies of Ja- 

 maica. By G. S. Jenman, Superintendent Botanical Garden, 

 Demerara. 



1. Polypodium latrcettii, Baker. — Stipites tufted from a slender up- 

 right villo6e rootstock, J rd. of an in. or less 1. dark-coloured filiform 

 denselyvillose with spreading brown or reddish hairs ; fronds spreading 

 linear-ligulate 2-3^ in. 1. 1^-2 li. b. bluntish or rounded at the apex, 

 tapering and decurrent at the base, pale, yellowish-green, thin and flac- 

 cid, clothed with fine spreading scattered hairs, specially on the mid- 

 rib and margins, the latter slightly repand ; rachid filiform, purplish at 

 the base, enclosed above this ; veins fine, curved, not reaching the edge, 

 with a short anterior soriferous branch ; round, terminal, contiguous but 

 apart, forming a medial or subcostate row on each side of the midrib. 



Infrequent at 4,000-6,000 ft. alt. in damp forests on the trunks and 

 branches of trees ; distinguished by the simple, entire, soft-textured 



N. B. — The Lists in January and February ought to have betn numbered 

 XLMI and XLIV respectively. 



