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pupate there in little chambers in the earth They appear to eat 
decayed fragments of roots, leaves etc. The beetle is halt an-inch 
lon^ black covered with green scales. [Bulletin Ser . p. 
Hand picking or shaking into cloths and then destroying is the 
best wav of dealing with this pest. . , , 
Triphavia trifolio/ata.— \'he Lime-berry Limau keah, is a shrub 
which produces small oranges as big as a large pea, orange colour 
with a taste’ of Marmalade. The plant is probably a native o 
China, but has long been cultivated all over the world. I he limits 
are usually made into preserves with syrup and as such are very 
palatable/ They can also be used kr making orange brandy. Lhe 
fruit being put into the brandy and left to stand for a year or two 
in the same way as sloe-gin is made. The shrub is grown from se< d 
and grows very readily. It is often grown as a hedge plant, tor 
which it is well suited. 
Bukserace^. 
An order of trees of which the only one of which the fruit is 
eaten is Canarium , the Kenan nut. The Canariums-of which there 
are a considerable number, possess fruits with a thin hard flesh 
often of a turpentiney flavour covering an exceedingly hard seed 
usually triangular about i i inch long and sharply pointed at each 
end. The best part of this fruit is the kernal of the stone which 
tastes like a nut but it is very small and the stone is so haul 
that it requires a hammer to break it, Canarium commune, of Java 
is perhaps the best. 
The Chinese pickle a smaller species whole in salt and water 
and preserve them in small jars which are sold in most of the 
good shops. 
An unidentified species called Drija by the Malays was met with 
at Kota Glanggi, where the Sakais had been collecting large quan- 
tities of the fallen fruits for the sake of the kernals. 
SOME OBSERVATIONS ON COLLECTING LATEX 
BY M. H. LECOMTE 
(Translated from the Journal D' Agriculture Tropicale /o, p. 100) 
The fine demonstrations here given were made by M. LECOMTE 
at Haris under the auspices of the Association brancaise pour 
rAvancement des Sciences. 
The latex of rubber plants is enclosed in the laticiferous canals 
of which the branching varies with the nature of the plant and 
perhaps also with the biological conditions of the surroundings, 
and it is therefore clear that an exact knowledge of the branching 
of the laticiferous vessels is indispensable in order to fix regula- 
tions for a methodical plan of extraction. 
Unfortunately this study is always neglected so that the proces- 
ses of obtaining lhe latex are purely empirical, and my intention is 
not to consider all possible cases but only to call attention to a 
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