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THE BLACK BRAZIL CHERRY, EUGENIA 
BRASILIENSiS. 
A good many years ago, about 1897 1898, Mr. Robert Little 
presented the Botanic Gardens with two small trees sent from Brazil 
as some kind of orange. These were planted in a somewhat sandy 
part of the economic gardens in the vegetable ground. One of them 
grew into a fairly large bushy tree with deep green leaves, and 
flowered and fruited for the first time in 1 903 and has continued to 
fruit ever since. The tree is now about 20 feet tall and very bushy, 
the branches reaching to near the ground. It has numerous stems, 
6 inches through, and flaky reddish bark. The leaves are small 
obovate to oblanceolate, deep green glossy, lighter green, beneath 
with very inconspicuous nerves, three to six inches long I L A inch to 
3 inches across on a petiole half-an inch long. The flowers are 
small and white on rather long stalks. The fruit in appearance 
resembles a black currant, but is rather larger, and certainly suggests 
a small black heart cherry, crowned at the top with the green sepals. 
It contains a single rather soft oblong greenish seed but frequently 
the seed is absent. The flesh is juicy and sweet and somewhat of the 
consistence of that of a currant. The tree fruits abundantly in 
January and its fruits are very ples&ant to eat, It is readily raised 
from seeds and should fruit well in five or six } ears— Ed. 
LALLANG GRASS Impemta Cylindrica , Beau 
USED IN PAPERMAKING. 
(To Robert Little , Esq., Singapore.) 
Dear Sir. 
I have pleasure in enclosing you my further report on the 
samples of Lallang Grass received from you in March last, and I 
tiust you will find the same of interest. 1 also send you some speci- 
mens of the paper made from this grass in conjunction with other 
fibres. From the report you will sec that we have come to the 
conclusion that Lallang alone is not a very suitable material lor 
paper-making purposes, but, if used with Flax, Hemp or Megasst 
which is waste sugar-cane fibre, from sugar refining lactories, and of 
which I think you should be able to obtain a ready supply, it in 
capable of producing a very satisfactory paper, and one worthy of 
your serious consideration. 
If you are desirous of developing this work, and taking up the 
manufacture of this paper, I shall be pleased to assist you in any way 
possible as regards the fitting up of a mill, or in any other direction 
