324  Notes  on  Some  Saps  and  Secretions.  {Amjine!im&Tm' 
removed,  on  October  2,  1890,  have  increased.  The  imports,  in  1890, 
were  473,095  pounds  of  crude  or  unmanufactured,  valued  at  £1,183,- 
712  and  34,465  pounds  prepared  for  smoking,  value  £269,586. 
In  the  financial  year  ending  to  1893,  the  imports  were,  of  crude, 
6*5,957  pounds,  value  £1,186,824. 
The  chief  seat  for  the  production  of  opium  is  India,  where  the 
export  trade  to  China  used  to  average  126,000  cwts.,  valued  at 
£10,000,000,  but  of  late  years  has  been  falling  off. 
The  exports  were  : 
Cwts. 
^69  74,955 
1879   125,765 
1889  122,160 
The  exports  from  India  in  the  recent  financial  years,  ending  in 
March,  have  been  as  follows: 
Quantity,  Cwts.  Value. 
1891-  92   121,701  £9,562,260 
1892-  93   104,658  9.255,013 
I^93-94    97,910  8,019,428 
1895  (11  months,  to  February  7th)  ....      89,865  8,617,604 
The  poppy  is  largely  grown  for  the  opium  it  yields  in  many  of 
the  provinces  of  China,  hence  the  Indian  exports  now  go  to  many 
other  countries,  especially  Cochin  China  and  the  Straits  settlements. 
The  export  share  of  the  two  provinces  has  been  as  follows,  in  late 
years : 
Cwts.  Bengal.  Cwts.  Bombay. 
1891-  92   83,221  38,480 
1892-  93   70,615  34,043 
1893-  94   63,853  34,057 
The  imports  of  sorts  of  opium  into  China  in  each  of  the  last  two 
calendar  years  (January  to  December)  have  been  as  follows,  in 
piculs,  of  I  cwt.: 
1892.  1893. 
Piculs.  Piculs. 
Malwa  (Bombay)   27,782  28,694 
Patna  18,877  20,295 
Benares   .  ,  15, 353  12,121 
Persian                                                               7,77o  6,998 
70,782  68,108 
The  returns  for  1894  are  not  yet  to  hand,  but  the  Statistical 
Secretary  of  the  Customs  at  Shanghai,  in  his  report  for  1893,  stated  : 
"  The  protection  of  the  rupee  enhanced  the  price  of  opium  so 
