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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 6

Coffee-disease in Ceylon—

Coffee-disease in Ceylon—

The devastations of the Ceylon coffee plantations by the microscopic fungus Hemileia vastatrix, and the energetic attempts which have been made to check them by the discovery and application of remedial agents, have been followed at Kew with deep interest, and have involved much correspondence. I regret to add, from intelligence recently received, that the island of Java, in which, at the end of March of the present year, it made its appearance simultaneously in several distant spots, must be added to the list of countries afflicted with this pest.

The early history of the Hemileia has been sufficiently detailed in the Kew Report for 1876, pp. 18-20. The investigations of the Rev. R. Abbay, which were referred to as in progress, have been communicated to the Linnean Society and published in its journal (vol. xvii., pp. 173-184). They, doubtless, leave points on which further research is desirable, and possibly others which are susceptible of correction; but we are so far indebted to the Rev. R. Abbay for the first detailed account of the life, history, and morphology of this most important organism.

Copies of the plates which accompanied Mr. Abbay's paper are distributed with this report, and will page break Drawing of Hemineia Vastatrix page break Drawing of Hemileia Vastatrix page 33 be intelligible with the following descriptive references.