1841 91,230 —­ 1842 136,610 —­ 1843 151,757 L8,682 1844 173,275 10,974 1845 224,480 8,084 1847 —­ 4,716 1848 —­ 4,747 1849 —­ 6,760 1850 854,329 —­

In the spring of 1851, 201,130 lbs. were shipped from Bermuda.

In 1843 the quantity of arrowroot in the rough state made in Bermuda was 1,110,500 lbs.

ARROWROOT EXPORTED FROM ANTIGUA TO

Great Britain   B.N.  America   B.W.  Indies
Boxes          Boxes          Boxes
1835         1,075             20             —­
1836           581             43             —­
1837           100             42             —­
1838           472             20             —­
1839           682             —­             32
1840           453             —­             30
1841           289             —­             10
1842           582             —­             —­
1843           744             —­             —­
1844           376             —­             —­
1845           402              5             —­

Barbados exported in 1832, 16,814 lbs., value L469; in 1840, 387 packages; in 1843, 302; in 1844, 790 packages; in 1851, 306 packages; these average about 30 lbs. each.

Ceylon now produces excellent arrowroot.  In 1842, 150 boxes were exported; in 1843, 200; in 1844, 300; in 1845, 600 boxes.

From Africa we now import a large quantity:  250 boxes were received in 1846.  Not unfrequently arrowroot from Africa has been sent to the West Indies in the ships with the liberated Africans, and thence re-exported to England, as of St. Vincent or Bermuda growth.  The duty on arrowroot, under the new tariff, is equalised on all kinds to 41/2d. per lb.

The imports and home consumption of arrowroot have increased very largely, as may be seen from the following figures:—­

Retained for home
Imports         consumption
lbs.              lbs.
1826       318,830           358,007
1830       449,723           516,587
1834       837,811           735,190
1835       287,966           895,406
1838       404,738           434,574
1839       303,489           224,792
1840       408,469           330,490
1841          —­             454,893
1842       890,736           846,832
1846       905,072           981,120
1847     1,185,968         1,211,168
1848       906,304           933,744
1849     1,036,185         1,032,992
1850     1,789,774         1,414,669
1851     2,083,681         1,848,778
1852     2,139,390         2,024,316

SALEP is the prepared and dried roots of several orchideous plants, and is sometimes sold in the state of powder.  Indigenous salep is procured, according to Dr. Perceval from Orchis mascula, O. latifolia, O. morio, and other native plants of this order.  On the continent it is obtained from O. papilionaceo, and militaris.  Oriental salep is procured from other orchideoe.  Professor Royle states that the salep of Kashmir is obtained from a species of Eulophia, probably E. virens.  Salep is also obtained from the tuberous roots of Tacca pinnatifida, and other species of the same genus, which are principally natives of the East Indies and the South Sea Islands.