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M. LECOMTE was charged by the French Minister of the Colonies to effect the plantation of gutta-yielding plants in the French colonies of the new world. For this purpose he took with him, in wardian cases, plants belonging chiefly to the genera Palaquium (Dichopsis) and Sideroxylon, and in the small brochure before us he embodies an account of his expedition in the form of a Report to the Minister of the Colonies, and also includes in it a statement respecting the indigenous trees, such as Mimusops Balata, which he found already growing wild in Guiana.
Les arbres à Gutta-Percha, leur culture. Mission relativ à l'acclimatation de ces arbres aux Antillesetla Guyane.
Par Henri Lecomte. Pp. 95. (Paris: G. Carré et C. Naud, 1899.)
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F., J. Les arbres à Gutta-Percha, leur culture. Mission relativ à l'acclimatation de ces arbres aux Antillesetla Guyane . Nature 61, 538 (1900). https://doi.org/10.1038/061538a0
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