4. Liberian Rubber.—

Mr. Thomas Christy has introduced a new rubber plant to this country from Liberia, which we succeeded in identifying at Kew with Urostigma Vogelii, a species first collected at Grand Bassa by Vogel, and described in the Niger Flora. It belongs to the same family as the fig. The rubber is made up into balls about the size of a large orange. It is valued in the London market at Is. 6d. per lb., and if sent home cleaner would command a higher price.