September i, 1881.] THE TROPICAL 
AGRICULTURIST. 
253 
Notwithsl 
which 1 ho s 
Brazil* then 
rise in the 
8th January 
Huth & Go 
zil for the 
50,000 tons 
tons ! 
Ceylo 
wonder, 
shy of f 
Messrs. \ 
report w 
remark :- 
That 1 
peeling t 
of the n 
ate of 3;' 
gards la- 
the impr 
have ere; 
business 
Autumn 
current 
though 1 
delusive 
The la 
three ere 
Talk 
have 
Helm & Sc 
d for the 
ctedly large exports 
tine hist shewed from 
anticipating a gradual 
In their circular of 
firm as Messrs. Fred, 
rts of coffee from Bra- 
s at 103,563 tons, or 
ssult which is 154,724 
of the mark : we in 
J Brazil exports, but 
as (to whose monthly 
orcgoiug information) 
iliable l!io linns res- 
ari and the poorness 
belief that the eatim- 
be reached. As re- 
1 Europe and America, 
•oved crop prospects 
id hopeful feeling, and 
brisk and prosperous 
particular Die under- 
fidenee and hope, even 
the exhilarating but 
1. Rouse & Co. for the 
ries are as follows : — 
Rio to Europe... ...1 13,300 tons 54,200 tons 
,, the States, &c... 140, 700 ,, 118,800 ,, 
Total from Rio.. .254,000 tons 173,000 tons 
Santos to E 
the E 
j to J million ba 
Santos crop is 
(-90,000 to 10 
Exported 
Plantation 
Native 
October to 30th June. 
1S80 81. 1879 SO. 
10,000 tons 20,200 tons 
1,300 ,, 1,900 ,, 
Total 17,300 tons 28,100 tons 
About 3,000 tous are expected to be shipped in 
r.ext three months, against a similar quantity in 
corresponding period of 1S-0. The general impres 
is that the next crop will be about. 35,000 tons ; bi 
larger out-turn is by some considered pn babl j . 
Java. 
The Government 
1881. ism). 
1S7!>. 
816.300 bags* 
or 
48,400 tons 
Crop. 
558,800 bags 1,260,000 bags 
or or 
74.S00 tons 
33,200 tons 
Latest estimate. 
I>1\ i ■ I >1 V I ; l.ll'.l IHV1 ; LIBI-DIBI. 
A correspondent asks: "What is the Sinhalese 
name for divi-divi ? " Wo do not know that thero is 
any Sinhalese i nine, the natives not being acquainted 
with the divi-divi, which are the astringent pods of 
Ccusalpinia eoriarin, 11 tree which is described as follows 
in the Treasury of Botany -. — "('. eoriarin is a small 
tree twenty or thirty feet high, native of several of the 
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West, Indian Islands, Mexico, Venezuela, and North 
Brazil. The primary divisions of its leaves vary from 
nine to fifteen, each bearing from sixteen to twenty-four 
narrow oblong blunt leaflets, marked with black dots 
on the under surface. It has branched racemes of 
white flowers, whic 
about two inches lo 
ved so as to bear soi 
large per-centagc of 
exceedingly valuabl 
known iu commerc 
Libi-divi, or Libi-d: 
Maraeaibo, Paraiba, 
A ' ' kinder s 
long review of 
istic 
Anotlu 
in th 
day, 
the f 
curiously flattened pod*, 
:-fourths broad, and cur- 
lace to the letter S. The 
these pods renders them 
ling purposes: they are 
le names of Divi-divi, 
e chiefly imported from 
• New Product" referred to 
ling coiemporary of yester- 
shing it in exlenso we make 
fhich we believe give the 
his supposed new product :— 
" p. 432, the 4th 
■Libidibia, from 
pod of this plant in Curacjoa, 
In Hay's Gardener's Di 
section of Csesalpiuia 
Libidibi, the name or'th 
the CsBsalpinia coriaria of Willdenow, which is 
native of Curagoa, Carthagena, and St. Domingo, in 
salt mnrshes by the sea-side. The legumes of this 
plant arc called Libidibi and are used in tanning 
leather when ripe by the Spaniards and natives. The 
tree grows 15 to 20 feet. 
From the Bombay Flora of Dalzell and Gibsou pub- 
lisher! in 1S61 this plant is noticed as follows : — 
America. X spreading umbrageous tree" not high; 
leaflets minute; legumes very numerous, variously 
contorted ; has been raised extensively at Hewra and 
Dapoorie from seed received through the late Dr. 
Wallich. This tree is likely to be of great import- 
ance, on account of the excellent tanning material 
which it affords." 
We may mention the fact that the Messrs. Leechmau 
introduced the seed of the plant to Ceylon some 
years ago, and the result was that several of them 
germinated but died down immediately afterwards. 
On other hand, this is what Dr. Trimen writes : — 
R. Bot. Garden, Peradeniya, 3rd Aug. 1SS1. 
Sir, — It may, perhaps, be instanced as a good ex- 
ample of the habit of passing by what is close to 
us without notice, that neither you nor your morn- 
. your remarks on "Divi-Divi" have 
are that the seeds of casalpina 
.rly advertized in your columns, 
useful plants 011 sale at these 
old tree of this species near the 
uiya affords an abundant crop of 
id there cau be no doub' that the 
1 generally at the lower elevations 
in Ceylon. — 1 am, vours faithfully, 
HENRY TRIMEN. 
ing 
Card! 
entra 
pods 
plant would 
FORESTRY AND TIMBER IN THE STRAITS. 
Mr. H. J. Murtou of the Singapore Botanioal Gard- 
en, in concluding a series of papers on the "Timber 
Trees of the Straits " published by the Straits Times, 
makes the following observations, which the Ceylon 
Government and their advisers may well take into 
consideration : — 
As regards future supplies of timber, tho Straits 
have little need of the introduction of exotic species 
of timber trees, if tho indigenous kinds are properly 
attended to; as in addition to those described in my 
former contributions, there arc numerous indigenous 
timber producing l)ipt> roear\„ <\ l.awiw a-, and Leyu- 
minora), etc.. etc, which as yet are but slightly 
known to the Bvatematut, although native woodmen 
are perfectly familiar with them, and their distill- 
