"ملف XX/٥ معلومات عن النباتات في الكويت." [و‎‎٤‎٩] (١٦٢/٩٩)

REPORT
On the working of the Office of the Reporter on Economic Pro-
dticts to the Government of India, during the year 1008-09.
The Office remained in my charge throughout the year. Mr. R.
Abbey-Yates continued to work as Super-
Personnei. intendent of Ledgers and Mr. A. A. Blyth
as Head Clerk. At the end of December, 1908, the services of the
temporary clerks in the Ledger Branch were dispensed wuth on the
completion of the work of arranging files for which they had been
engaged.
I made the following tours:— (i) May 4th to 14th, 1908 to
Lucknow to report for the Provincial
Touvs ' Government upon the economic collection
in their local Museum, to Saharanpur and to Simla; {ii) July 29th
to August 8 th to Pusa and Mirzapur in connection with jute and
lac; (m) August 18th to 29th to various places in the Jalpaiguri
District collecting information about Curcumas and early rains
vegetables; (iv) September 9th to October 26th to Bombay to collect
products in its bazars, and to the Districts of Nimar and Aihraoti
studying Rusa oil grass; (y) October 23rd to 27th to Pusa in connec
tion with jute experiments; (yi) November 27th to December 20th
along the Irrawaddy from Mandalay southwards collecting infor
mation about Leguminous crops. In all 111 days were spent on
tour aw r ay from Calcutta. This amount approximates to my aver
age and is all that was permitted by my administrative responsibili
ties as Reporter on Economic Products and Superintendent of the
Indian Museum, Industrial Section.
I learned enough on my tour in the Melghat, to justify the
preparation of a short preliminary note
BestlUs - 0 n Rusa and the other oil-grasses distilled
’there: I am able to show, what all the Herbarium botanists of the
world could not show from their dried specimens, how widely these
varieties, Sofia and Motia, of Cymbopogon Martini differ. They
occupy different but contiguous areas, and evidently are favoured
by different conditions such as would make the cultivation of both
together difficult. Where they meet they hybridise sparingly. This