lbs. lbs.
1847 367,936 150,657 | 1847 60,265 18,821
1848 336,420 167,143 | 1848 47,572 19,712
1849 224,021 178,417 | 1849 45,978 20,605
1850 315,126 167,683 | 1850 77,337 21,997
1851 358,320 194,132 | 1851 77,863 21,695
1852 357,940 239,113 | 1852 61,697 21,480

MACE EXPORTED--ACTUAL GROWTH OF SINGAPORE.
Quantity--piculs. Value--L
1841 251/2 583
1842 72 1,616
1843 403/4 943
1844 161/2 359
1845 71 1,616
1846 8 179
1847 75 1,661

109 piculs of imported mace were also re-shipped in 1847.

40,000 lbs. of mace were imported into the United Kingdom from India
in 1848.

GINGER, GALANGALE, AND CARDAMOMS.

The rhizome of _Zingiber officinale_ (_Amomum Zingiber_), constitutes
the ginger of commerce, which is imported chiefly from the East and
West Indies. It is also grown in China. In the young state the
rhizomes are fleshy and slightly aromatic, and they are then used as
preserves, or prepared in syrup; in a more advanced stage the aroma is
fully developed, their texture is more woody, and they become fit for
ordinary ginger. The inferior sorts, when dried after immersion in hot
water, form black ginger. The best roots are scraped, washed, and
simply dried in the sun with care, and then they receive the name of
white ginger. The rhizome contains an acid resin and volatile oil,
starch and gum. It is used medicinally as a tonic and carminative, in
the form of powder, syrup, and tincture.

The root stocks of _Alpinia racemosa_, _A. Galanga_, and many other
plants of the order, have the same aromatic and pungent properties as
ginger.

The consumption of ginger is about 13,000 or 14,000 cwt. a year. Of
16,004 cwt. imported in 1840, 5,381 came from the British West Indies,
9,727 from the East India Company's possessions and Ceylon, and 896
cwt. from Western Africa.

The difference between the black and white ginger of the shops is
ascribed by Dr. P. Browne and others to different methods of curing
the rhizomes; but this is scarcely sufficient to account for them, and
I cannot help suspecting the existence of some difference in the
plants themselves. That this really exists is proved by the
statements o