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HONGKONG, THURSDAY, JULY 29, 1909.

Business Notices:

第三十月六年元获官

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A Guide to Firms and Agencies in Hongkong

T9 With Classified List. Appendix of General Information. List Jor

HONGKONG AND ITS FLORA.

[Continued)

"AGRICULTURE, AND OTHER INDUSTRIES.

Bamboo Ropes.-Some good series of bamboo ropes both plaited and twisted were secured through the kindness. of Mr- Playfair and Mr Higgs of H. M. Consulate, Foochow, and of Mr Currie of the C. J. M. Customs at Swatow and were sent to the Imperial Institute and to Kew.

COMMERCIAL INVESTIGATIONS.

With a view to placing the botanical resources of this Department as far as ponible at the service of the mercantile community of Hongkong. His Excellency

has requsated me to collect all possible

information uport the vegetable producta

of

Residents and Four Maps.

Book form, red leather gilt,.

..... Price $5.00%

At all Booksellers or by post from K. A. Massey, Hongkong Hotel.

All Advertisements face Reading Matter.

Hongkong, July 24, 1909..

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1964

'SAPPORO' & 'ASAHI'

BEER

this neighbourhood or for which Hong LIGHT AND REFRESHING

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kong is an emporium. This information is

to refer chiefly to the raw or partly manufactured products exported from Chine and to include the locality of produc tion. quantity available, country to which exported, price at port of export und in the markets to which they eventually go.

The Director of the Imperial Institute sevars! ucesions of London has already ased the wide resources of his establish ment for tho investigation of vegemble products in which Hongkong is interested is has been recorded on several occasione in these Annual Reports His nid would certainly be sought in certain parts of these commercial investigations and the additional details so obtained as well as others "obtainable through othcial sources would perhaps be of sufficient use to firms interested in the trade of the Colony to enable them to take up new producta.or at any to to handle some of the older OneH to greater advantage."

The chief subject of correspondence with the Institute ducing the last year have been oils and oil seeds, bamboo products and Chinese medicines (collected in connection with the request of the British Pharina-

coprain Committee), The folowing veget- able products have been selected for pre- liminary investigation as being among those of most importance to this Colony:China Root, Galingal, Abutilon Fibre, Ramie, Apricot kernels and Melon seeda.

ADDITIONS TO THE FLORA OF HONGKONG AND THE NEW TERRITORIES.

"

Sepebiera pinnatifida, D. CA cosmo- politan weed found in Hongkong and Kowloon, in waste places.

Clitoria Banceans, Hemsl.-Growing abundantly near the rifle rango, Kowloon Previously only known from the North River, Kwangtung, and Cochin China

Quisqualis indica, Ling.--Collected be- hind the Buddhist Temple, Causeway Bay. Perhaps au cacape from cultivation. Widely dispersed in tropical Asia.

Eugenia sp. Found on the east side of the road lending up from Quarry Bay to the Sanatorium at Mt. Parker. A shrub about 12 feet high.

Wendlandia sp. -Trailing over rocks and trees on the hill above Tytam Re- servoir; also on Taimoshan:

Ardisia chinensis, Penth.Rediscovered, on the western spar of Mt Parker. Only known from Hongkong and Turnusa,

Alaiphyllum pterospermom, Mata. Found on the south side of Lautan. Freviously collected in various parts of China, and in Formosa,

Ehretia acuminata, R. Br.Collected by Mr Ford in 1893 on the west side of the stream leading from Wongneishang Gap to Deepwater Bag, but not previously deter mined. A common tree in China; also found in India, Malay, and North Australia. Veronica Tournefortii C. C. Omel-A¤

Obtainabla at Messrs

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Hongkong, February 8, 1908, v

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Telephone No. 197..

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undes" Baropeka. Supervision. Grille as short novios, "Private Bv and

European wood bund in the Albany DOINTER, well trained and capable. LATE OF WILES & JACK, LD. CUISINE For Monthly Rater for 1981 and Dinner

seeds from Europe.

Laoders glauca, BL-A few trbos growing pear the top of the path leading from May Road to Berker Road. Common in China; also found in Japan, but not previously recorded from Hongkong.

Acalypha austanlis, Linn-Found in the Albany Nursery. Frequently met with in China but not hitherto in Hongkong, álo known from Japan.

Barmaanis Wallichii, Hook.f.-Found ia Hongkong 50 years ago, but not again ontil this year,"

Cyanotis Kavenais. C. B. Clarka. Growing alongside the atresin Insding from Wongnaichung, Gap to Wongnaichung Villago. Pedrionaly collected at Travun

ore, and in China in Kwangtung Band Fokien.

price to

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Fitted throughout with Eleotris delt Pandanus foroops. Martelli. Diacovered and Fans supplied in all Cabins.

on a hill north of Kowloon Tong Only. previously known from a few drapes from which the species was described.

Lomas polyrhiza Lint Collected, in wwampe at So Kum Po. Found in the warm and temperate regions of the old world, and in the Northern United States to Venesuela and Cab Recorded from Hongkong for the first sims,

Oyarbes spinuloss, Wall-Several plante

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found by

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