AGRICULTURE A SID CROWN LANDS 
ANNUAL REPORT FOR 1917, 
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CHAPTER I. 
EXPENDITURE, RECEIPT, SALE OP PRODUCE &c. 
Sale of produce 
Royalty on guano 
Export duty on guano 
Rent of Crown Lands 
Rs 
c. 
1,586 
82 
2,485 
34 
2,019 
78 
20,710 
09 
The total expenditure under Agriculture and Crown Lands amounted to Rs 11,394.47. 
The principal plants sold were the following: 
Coffee robusta and allied varieties (from Java). 
Palm Oil (Eleis guineensis) (from W. Africa). 
Cedars (Casuarina equisetifolia). 
Mangoes (Mangifera indica) (from Mauritius). 
Groundnuts (Arachis hypogea) do. 
Sweet patatoes (Ipomea batatas) from Brazil, Mauritius and W. Indies. 
Jerusalem artichoke (Helianthus tuberosus). 
Cowpeas (Vigna catjang) non-trailing varieties from Washington U. S. A. 
Among the plants successfully introduced during the year the following may be mentioned % 
15 varieties of sweet potatoes from Mauritius. 
3 varieties of Groundnuts from Mauritius. 
7 varities of Coffee robusta from Java. 
Nephelium lappaceura (fruit) „ 
Cordia myxa (ornamental) from Egypt. 
Feijoa seilowiana (fruit) „ 
Galphimia brasiliensis (ornamental) from Egypt. 
Zizyphus spinachristi (ornamental) „ 
Date palm (Phoenix dactylifera) 4 varieties from Egypt. 
Coccs romanoffiana (ornamental) ,, 
Solanum warsewiezci „ 
Laosium domesticum (fruit) from Java. 
JTerminalia arjuna (dye) „ 
Durian (Durio zybethinus) „ 
Eugenia maltia ,, 
Uvaria rnfa ,, 
CHAPTER II. 
STRIKING SPECIES WHICH FLOWERED OR FRUITED FOR THE FIRST TIME. 
Sandortcum BADiATUM.—This very handsome and still insufficiently known fruit tree from 
Java produced ripe fruits at Barb irons and at the Botanic StatDn. Seeds were introduced! 
from Java in 1912. It is beside an excellent shade tree with a dense head and is very orna¬ 
mental owing to the old leaves turning red befor3 falling. The fruit is large attaining a 
diameter of nearly 3 inches and the sweet pulp inside is arranged like that of the mangosteert. 
The thick rind is, it appears, turned into jams in the Philippines. 
2. Mangosteen (Garcinia mangostana) (from Malaya).— One of the few trees intro¬ 
duced in 1903 dowered or fruited abundantly at Capucin Crown Land this year (1917). The 
flowers appeared at the beginning of the year and the fruits ripened gradually from May 
to June. Trees of the same age planted at Victoria have not yet flowered although they are 
of the same height. For this and other reasons it seems that this unique fruit tree is more 
at home on the hills than in the low country. It does best in sheltered and damp ravines. 
At an elevation of 1200 feet the fruits produced this year were much larger than the fruits 
produced now and then at Bel Ombre (low country), where there is a tree growing in the yard 
of the Convent. It is believed that this tree was introduced by the late Sultan of Perak when, 
Jhe was a political prisoner in Seychelles more than 30 years ago. 
