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THE TROPICAL AGRICULTURIST. 
783 
BARK AND DRUG REPORT. 
(From the Chemist and Druggist.) 
London, March 21st. 
Anxatto Seed.— The market is i\ell, in fact almost 
over-supplied with seed. Two parcels, tosetlier with 
176 bags from Ceylou and the Bast, were offered today, 
and 77 of these sold at 2d to 2Jd per lb. for fair to 
good bright. 
Essential Oils.— Citronella in tins was bought in at 
Jd per oz., and Lemougrass at ijd per oz. 
Quinine was reported rather firmer during the week, 
and yesterday It was even said that there were buyers 
at lOd, but no sellers under lOjd per 0 /.. for second- 
hand German bulk. The B & S agents say that Is per 
oz. is ther lowest price. Neverthele s, at today's drug 
auctions the article touched the lowest price yet re- 
recorded 1,000 oz of the Auerbach brand selling at 9| 1 
per oz ; 2,000 oz Brunswick at lOd to 10|d ; and 4,000 oz 
Whiffen at Is lijd per oz. There has been very little, 
business done privately this week. 
A FIRMER QUININE MARKET 
in our last market review shows that the article was 
beginning to recover from the great and sudden break 
that had occurred the week before on the strength of 
most depressing news from London, and since that time 
further progress in the line of improvement has been 
made. As ihe decline in the first instance began in 
London so has the reaction been caused by reports 
emuoating from that market. It is difficult to ascer- 
tain what caused the break unless it be the decline in 
the price of bark at the recent public sale in London, 
but as there has been in the past, even a greater de- 
cline in the unit price of bark without effect upon the 
quinine market, this explanation is hardly satisfactory. 
In view of the fact that the effort recently made to 
bring Ihe manufactureres of the world into accord on 
the question of regulating prices and production tailed 
because, as it is reported, one manutacturer refused 
to lend assistance to the scheme, it has been intima- 
ted that the late extreme depression was the result 
of a bear movement inaugurated aud continued fur 
the pnrpose of oompeiling the recalcitrant manufac- 
turer to co-oiierate in a measure designed lor the 
general good. There is no evidence that the manu- 
facturers have yet come together and unanimously 
adopted a plan to place the quinine market on a sub- 
stantial basis, while it is a fact that the market lias 
recovered somewhat, therefore the cau.se of the im- 
provement will have to be sought in some other direc- 
tion. The facts seem to be that the average specula- 
tive holder of quinine is seized with a panicky ieeling 
whenever the article begins to shows evidences of 
unusual weakness from any cause whatever, and at 
once hastens to unload, thus increasing the we ak tone 
of the market and quickening the downward move- 
ment. More confident buyers then step iu, and alter 
the pressure to sell has been relieved, the inevitable 
reaction occurs. This is au experience often rep.^ated 
in the quinine market, and in the absence of any 
better explanation seems to fit the conditions recently 
prevailing in the quinine market. — Aeiw York Oil and 
Drug Reporter, Feb. 25tb. 
— — -O' 
WILD FLOWERS OF CEYLON. 
Nanuoya, April 6th. 
Through Miss Martin’s courtesy I am now able 
to send you the list of 54 of our hill wild 
flowers, portraits of which that lady exhibited at 
the Nuwara Eliya Show. The names have been 
carefully copied so as to render the task of the 
compositor and propf reader easy, while a care- 
ful oomparisou has been made with Dr. Trimen 3 
list by Mr. A. M. Ferguson, junior, who has added 
Trimen’s numbers in nearly every case, with 
native and other names, where given or known. 
With regard to the suggestion of publishing a 
work after the model of Miss Anne Pratt’s “ Wild 
Flowers of Britain,” Miss Martin very reasonably 
doubts if suflioient encouragement oould be cal- 
ulatad on for so expeuaiya a voutura. In any 
ease, should publication be ultimately decided on, 
the lady artist feels that she must add 
very considerably to her present collection. She 
deems it probable that she will not have ex- 
hausted the hill country wild flowers (especially 
if she goes into orchids and ferns) under three 
years. This shows how rich our mountain region 
is in wild flowers. Meantime the advance list 
of those drawn, coloured and exhibited by Miss 
Martin is as follows: — 
MISS MAETIN’S EXHBIT OF WILD FLOWERS. 
1 Coleus inflatus, 623. 
2 Supubia tiifida, 558. 
3 Uiricularia rosea, 663. 
4 B'iocaulon quinquangulare. (Kok-motft), 907. 
5 Sida carpiuifolia, 87. 
6 Oampbellia cytinoides, 561. 
7 Christisonia subacanlie, 662. 
8 Burmannia pusilla, 767. 
9 Balanophora indioa, 687. 
10 Euonjmous revoIutuB, 164. 
11 Vaccinium Leschenaultii, 443. 
12 .Strobilanthes Hookeri, 686, (nilu). 
13 Paroohetus communis, 209. 
14 Smithia blanda, 217. 
15 Geatiaiia quadrifaria, 617- (Gentian.) 
16 Utricularia, 563. 
17 E.xacum Walkeri, 612. 
18 Do. macranthum, 512. 
19 Swertia zeylauica, 518. 
20 Seneoio zeylanicus, 433. 
21 Emilia zeylanioa, I Aai 
22 Do. sonchifolia. (Kadu-para) J 
23 Pedioularis zeylanioa, 559. 
24 Hapenaria .aristata 1 „„„ 
25 Do. spiralis J 
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568. 
118. (Balsams.) 
Satyrium nepalense. ( 
Do. do. var. white ) 
Spiranthes australis, 810. 
Liparis Wightiana, 771. 
KIngia Notouiana. (Diysnilla), 
Impatiens Walkeri 
Do. bipartita 
Do. acaulis 
Do. macrophyllaj 
Valeriana Moonii, 400. (Harebell). 
Wahlenbergia gracilis, 440. 
Pachystoma speciosum. (Daffodil orchid.) 777. 
Barleria Arnottiana, 689. 
Oxalia Carnioulata. (Hin-embul-embiliya). 116, 
Trifolium minus, p. 22. (Trefoil.) 
Cynoglossum furcatum. (Bu-kattu-henda), 628. 
(Forget-me-not.) 
Vernonia setigera, 1 
Do. Wightiana, J 
Somrila hirsutula, 302. 
Osbeckia rubicunda. 
Do. cupularis. 
Hygrophila spinoea. (Katu-ikira S., Nirmulli 
T.), 580. 
Oommelina, 864 
Phaius bicolor, 779. (Large ground orchid, A. M. 
HF. Jr.) 
ibiscus auguloaus, var. graudifloras. (Kapu« 
kinissa), 93. 
Crotalaria semperfloreus, 208. 
Scutellaria, 629. (Skullcap.) 
flypericuro, 69. (St, Jehu’s Wort.) 
Asolepias cnraesavica. 
Tobacco Disease.— In his note on the above sub- 
ject, Dr. Cooke seems to have fallen into error when 
lie says that Peronospora hyoscyami is ‘‘con- 
fined apparently” to Hyoscyamus. He does not tell 
us what species of Tobacco he refers to under the 
Tobacco of Australia. Peronospora hyoscyRjni has, 
according to Professor W. G. Farlow, D»dly attacked 
for the last four years Nicotiana glancain Mexico and 
California, and great fears have been entertained in 
America of the pest opreading to the Tobacco-grow - 
ing districts of \ irginia,— W. G. B.— Gardeners' Chro~ 
nivle. 
