MAORI ABORIGINAL MANUFACTURES. 487 
K To be taken as a warm beverage, the leaves and stalks should be 
placed in cold water in about the proportion of one gramme to a tea- 
cup, more or less, as the consumer may desire it of a greater or lesser 
degree of strength. The water should be immediately made to boil for 
about the space of ten minutes in the tea kettle or other closed vessel. 
It should then be emptied into the tea-pot or tea-cups and sweetened 
accordingly. 
A sample of this new kind of tea has recently been received at the 
Kew Museum ; it was packed in a very neat eanister-shaped box, similar 
to those now sold in Paris. These boxes are of two sizes, the smaller 
containing material sufficient for making 50 cups of Faham, and sold at 
2f. 50c, and the larger 105 cups and sold at 5f. Upon opening the box 
in question the perfume emitted was exceedingly powerful, and very- 
similar to that of the Tonquin Bean. The leaves, unlike those of tea, 
appear simply dried, not shrivelled by heat, but are as flat as we should 
find them in any herbarium. The absence of any artificial colouring 
matter, or roasting, accounts for the very light colour of the infusion. 
No doubt there are many persons who would prefer the fragrance of 
this article to the aroma of Chinese tea, but for my part I give preference 
to the latter — perhaps prejudice may have something to do with it. 
The perfume from the tea-pot is certainly very agreeable, and is an 
undoubted novelty ; and if Faham came into general use, this domestic 
article would serve the twofold purpose of a tea-pot and a " perfume 
vaporiser." Doubtless if these leaves can be obtained in quantities 
sufficient for consumption as tea, the French perfumers might also 
import them to advantage, if for no other use. Powdered they would 
make excellent sachets. 
In the Museum at Kew are some cigars made of the leaves of 
A. fragrans simply rolled in a tobacco thin leaf. They are probable very 
agreeable smoking, but I am unable to say if this application is a 
common one in the Island of Bourbon, or whether these specimens are 
rather a curiosity. 
MAORI AND OTHER ABORIGINAL MANUFACTURES AND 
IMPLEMENTS. 
BY W. H. HARRISON* 
Containing, as New Zealand does, an aboriginal population, number- 
ing between 50,000 and 60,000 souls, articles of native manufacture, 
and specimens illustrative of the arts and customs of the Maori race, 
are most interesting. The Maoris have most deservedly been consi- 
