plant for wet low ground, for which we have no use except 
for sago or rice, and of which class of land there is a very con- 
siderable amount in the Peninsula. It also gives a quick return, 
at a very trivial cost, and requires no expensive machinery c 
elaborate cultivation, and finally holds, as it has always dot 
the first rank in value among the rubbers. 
It has been tried in Ceylon and India, but I can find but lilL. 
published as to its cultivation in the former country. It seemed, 
under Dr. Trimens * management, to have done almost if noi 
quite as well in Ceylon as it does here, but, in spite of his recom- 
mendations, the planters seem to have condemned it with Ceara 
rubber, and abandoned it. In Tenasserim it seems to havt 
done well, but I know nothing as to practical cultivation there 
on a large scale. 
Manihot Glaziovii, Ceara scrap rubber, has attracted a grea 
deal of attention in past years, and many trees were planted ir 
Ceylon and elsewhere. The amount of rubber produced unde 
cultivation was so small, and the profit so slight that the Ceylor 
planters destroyed their trees and abandoned the cultivation 
In the Peninsula, trees were planted in many places, and thougi 
isolated trees are to be found as fine as could be washed, th 
greater part utterly failed. The failure in Ceylon gave th 
whole of rubber cultivation a bad name, because planters, de 
scribing their w r ant of success, did not say, in many cases, wha 
rubber they had been growing, and sometimes confused the tv 
plants. 
The Ceara rubber is easily known by its silvery hark, liT 
that of a bitch, while Para rubber has. a brown rough barl 
xiiere is a great difference rise in habit, the former tree having 
a straight stem with leafy branches only at the top, giving it 
flat umbrella-like appearance, the latter having a tendency t 
branch at about six or ten feet from the base, and forming 
magnificent large ci„*vu o. -jc haaPa* r Cea v 
rubber trees is one of the driest of the Brazilian province' 
where the soil is sandy or gravelly or even rocky, where eve: 
tapioca requires to be watered, and there are occasionally 
years when no rain falls. In fact, the tree is a regular deser 
plant. What wonder then that it should not be successful in 
wet climate like ours ? 
Para Rubber, 
Hevea braziliensis (Euftharbiacea), a very large tree inhabit 
mg the swampy islands and banks of the river Amazon. — I 
suitable soil it grows very fast and attains the height of aboi 
sixty feet, with a diameter of about two feet through the sjten 
The leaves are trifid, dull green above and whitish beneatl 
The flowers are produced in panicles on the ends of th 
branches. They are small and green, very sweetly scented, £- 
that when a tree is in flower, it can be detected by the seen 
of the blossoms. The flowers seem only to be produced whe 
