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CORRECTIONS AND OBSERVATIONS ON THE 
HISTORY OF THE INTRODUCTION 
OF PARA RUBBER. 
Readers of last bulletin will 
lines io and 2S a 9. ha 
page 3, 
the dates being 
■ 8 73 
note that on page 2, line 37, and 
been printed accidentally foT* a 7 
877 and 1876 respectively, the context how- 
ever sufficiently indicates this ; also that the inverted commas be- 
ginning on line 37 page 2, have dropped out after the word “perished 
on page 3. 
His Excellency Sir Frank Swettenham who calls my attention 
to these misprints writes — “ It is nowhere stated a matter of some 
importance in a real history of the introduction etc. that, in 1884 
1 then acting as Resident in Perak collected 40° Para seeds of the 
then single tree in bearing planted them in a box where 399 ger- 
minated and were planted out by me on the banks of the Kangsar 
river. I believe over 200 of these trees are still there and they have 
supplied Federated Malay States planters with hundreds of thou- 
sands of seed for a good many years. 
I may add to th ‘ previous paper that the first lot of seeds re- 
corded as sent out from the Botanic Gardens in Singapore were 
sent to Sarawak, December, 2bth 1882, and next to the Resident 
Councillor, Malacca, and Resident of Selangor June 8th, 1883. 
Editor. 
RAMIE. 
My note on ramie in the May number of the Bulletin elicited in 
subsequent numbers two interesting letters from Mr. BANENDALE, 
and one from Mr. ANDERSON. As further information on this 
subject is desirable I have been in correspondence with the latter 
gentleman and sent him a parcel of ribbons stripped by hand from 
the fastest growing and tallest variety we have in cultivation here, 
f gather from his letter that “ Black Ramie ” is not a term applied 
to all ramie ribbons but to one particular kind which he considers 
to be the form we have in cultivation here and which I sent him to 
experiment on. Although the yield in clean fibre in this variety 
is less, and the cost of preparing greater than in others, the greater 
yield per acre might possibly counter-balance this This is a point 
to be worked out and 1 now propose sending a sample of another 
kind which I feel sure will give a better percentage of clean fibre 
but it never attains to anything like the size or length of the one 
already sent. Later on 1 will give the approximate yield per acre 
&c. but for the present will be content to place before the readers 
of the Bulletin Mr. ANDERSON’S two letters on the subject contain- 
ing as I think they do some suggestions worthy of consideration. 
C. CURTIS, 
Superintendent of Gardens and Forests. 
(Letter No. i.) 
Dear Sir, — I received your interesting letter and sample of 
Ramie by last Mail which proves to my mind that you are in the 
