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FEVILLEA CORDIFOLIA, Sw. 

 Antidote Cacoon. 



A climbing plant, with tendrils ; leaves roundish, 3-4 inches ; flowers 

 small, orange colour ; fruit, size of an apple of a russet colour, hard, 

 full of large, flat, round seeds. ( Cucurbit acece.) 



Seeds abound in oil ; a good torch can be made by stringing them 

 on a thin stick. Oil " has been manufactured into candles." 



" The Spanish physicians, we are told, employ the seeds with success 

 in the form of an emulsion, for intermittent fever, and as a counter- 

 poison. The Buccaneers esteemed it so highly, that they never ven- 

 tured on an expedition without taking with them a supply of this 

 fruit." (Macfadyen.) 



FIDDLE WOOD. See Citharexvlum. 



FIT WEED. See Eryngium Fcetidum. 



FLAX, NEW ZEALAND. See Phormium tenax. 



FRENCH COTTON. See Calotropis procera. 



FRENCH OAK. See CatAlpa longissima. 



FURCRCEA CUBENSIS, Haw. 

 Silk Grass 



Native of West Indies and tropical America. 



A plant like an Agave, with spiny leaves, white flowers and ven 

 short siem. (AmaryllidecB.) 



Leaves yield a fibre, which may supply a small part of the Sisal 

 Hemp of Yucatan. 



FURC1UEA GIGANTEA, Vent. 

 Mauritius Hemp. 



Native of Central America. This plant is very much like the one 

 known as Silk Grass, but it is larger and has a distinct stem. 



It probably yields some of the fibre exported from Yucatan as Sisal 

 Hemp, but it is not the true plant, and the price of the fibre is not as 

 high. It was introduced many years ago into Mauritius, where it ra- 

 pidly spread. When a demand arose for fibre there w r as an immense 

 quantity in Mauritius ready at hand, and there was no expense in- 

 curred in planting. 



FUSTIC. See Maclura tinctoria. 



GENIP. See Melicocca bijuga. 



GINGER. See Zingiber officinale. 



