India Rubber Discovered

Two species of india rubber yieltling trees have reccntly been discovered in British Guinna of a character which insures their future profit to the colony. One is a near ally of the para rubber tree, and is known to the aborigines of thocounti'y by the name of Hatie, itsbotanical name bedng Hevea spruceana. It is sbout sixty feet high, witli a trunk diameter of twenty inches, and is foand on the alluvial oft-lloodud laad of the creeks aud bauks of the lower riverg, where it is abundant. The second is not scientiücaHy known as yet, na +1íwíni7ifr cnonimOTiii of it li'ivo nat been obtained. It is one of the largest trees of a forest Hora peculiarly rich iu large types. The trunk is four or íive feet in diameter, und runs up straight sixty or scvontjfeet unbranelied, above which the head cxtends many feet more. On its discovery reeently a few branckee could only be obtained by shooting tliem ofl' with large shot. ïhe bark is thick and wonderfully rioh in milk of excellent quality, and the elasticity and tenacity of the rubber seems to be unsurpassed. It is scattered in individual trees over a wido arca of the colon}'. The produce of these trees has not been put in the market as yet, collectors apparantly being tmacquainted with them. Samples, however, have been sent to England to bc valued. The G. S. Jenman, Government Botanist, ddring' an exploration which he lateljr made in British Güiaxlft. - Letter jorra Demorara to London News.