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II. 
Condition of the garden sticking species 
introduced flowered and fruited. 
Among the plants which floivered for the first time may he 
mentioned :— 
Bougainvillea lateritia 
do glabra var Sanderiana 
Peltophorum ferrugineuni 
Antigonon leptopus albiflora 
Mussaenda erythrophylla 
do frondosa 
do lutea 
Gmelina asiatica 
do hystrix 
Clitoria double bleue 
Gardenia lougistyla 
AUamanda grandiflora 
Latana nivea 
Clerodendron macrosipbon 
Euphorbia pulchruni 
Plumbago alba 
Castilloa elastica, &c., &c. 
Among economic plants special attention has been devoted 
to the propagation of Cola and to the grafting and inarchiug 
of fruit trees. 
Cola nuts were introduced from Ceylon in 1903 and the 
plants fruited abundantly in 1912. Three specimens had been 
introduced probably from Kew at a remote date and were dis¬ 
covered in the jungle at Government House iu 1908. One of 
these specimens although grown in poor soil produced 2000 nuts 
this year showing that under favourable climatic conditions this 
tree is quite capable of producing a large crop in Seychelles. 
A few other trees are also reported to have done well at Anse- 
aux-Pins whence a few planters applied foi’ information as to 
the curing of the nuts. All these trees belong to the species 
now known as Cola nitida rubra and it is fortunate that no 
better variety could have been introduced. A few nuts were 
offered to the Ashanti political prisoners who most readily 
accepted and consumed them. Most of the other seeds were 
kept for propagation and distribution. 
It appears that there is some future for cola planting and 
as the tree grows best in warm and wet localities near the 
Equator^ some advantage might be taken of this consideration 
in Seychelles. It is not likely that the article will be overpro¬ 
duced in the near future and the export from the tropics to 
Europe and America has already reached 1000 tons. In West 
Africa the consumption reaches and even exceeds 2000 tons. 
The price ( 5d for dried nuts and 2! for fresh nuts ) is likely to 
rise as the composition of cola nuts is just becoming known. 
They are fomid to contain besides cafein^ a substance allied to 
tannin which forms with cafein a soluble composition of power¬ 
ful stimulating properties. 
The tree in Seychelles is remarkably free from blight ex¬ 
cept coccidae like Icerya Seychellarum which only attack the pods 
at the time of ripening without damaging the nuts inside. This 
tree is well adapted to the local cultural methods. It stands 
shade and can be planted iu forest clearings and alongside river 
reserves but it should be mentioned that under untavoui’able 
conditions the tree remains sterile or has a tendency to produce 
male flowers only. 
With regard to the budding and inarching of fruit trees, 
the seedling-inarch method inaugurated by the United States 
Department of Agriculture was found successful with mangoes 
and oranges. Young seedlings of the common varieties of man¬ 
goes and bigarades ( citrus limonellus) were united without diffi- 
