4 
Table Ii. 
Percentage of Germination of Seeds from Tapped Trees coated with 
Bees Wax and Paraffin. 
No of 
r 
No. of 
seeds 
in box. 
Length of 
time the 
No. OF PLANTS 
OBTAINED. 
Percentage of seed 
GERMINATION. 
box. 
seeds were 
in boxes. 
Bees Wax. 
Paraffin. 
Bees 
Wax. 
Paraf- 
fin. 
Untrea- 
ted. * 
r 
180 
3 weeks 
107 
62 
59 
34 
33 
2 
180 
5 » 
108 
7 1 
60 
40 
23 
3 
180 
7 » 
94 
74 
52 
41 
24 
4 
180 
8 „ 
82 
66 
45 
37 
20 
5 
180 
9 » 
100 
61 
55 
34 
20 
6 
180 
10 „ 
86 
58 
47 
32 
24 
* Untreated seeds from tapped trees (see Expt. I.) 
In no case was there apparent a large falling oft in germin- 
ating power from the third to the tenth week. 
It is hoped to repeat both experiments in 1912. 
GOGO VINE. 
( Bntada seandens, Benth). 
In the “Board of Trade Journal,” September 14th last, reference is- 
made to samples of “soap bark,” the prepared bark of the Gogo 
Vine recently received from H. M. Consul at Manila, with the in- 
formation that the material is suitable for the manufacture of soap 
and hair-washes. 
From small specimens of the stem and prepared bark obtained 
from the Board of Trade, it has been possible to determine the 
material as the produce of Entada seandens. This is an immense 
Climber cosmopolitan in the tropics, and may be readily recognised 
by its spirally twisted stems and huge pods which are from two to 
four feet long, containing hard polished fl.t circular seeds of a chest- 
nut colour. So long ago as May, 1855, the late Mr. T. C. Archer 
presented to the Museum a similarly prepared sample of the bark 
under the same vernacular name, with a note to the effect that it 
contains saponaceous properties, forms a lather with water, and is 
much used by Manila ladies for cleaning the hair. The following 
particulars as to the mode of preparing the bark and its local appli- 
ations are gathered from “The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines,”* 
