283 
which have taken place during the last few years have had 
satisfactory results, and practical interest in this crop is now 
being displayed by a number of settlers. Some of the samples 
sent home were valued as high as £55 per ton and the yield 
also compares favourably with that in other countries’? (Colonial 
Report Annual, No. 840, 1915, p. 22). 
K.B. 1913, p. 319 
Sunn Hemp (Crotalaria juncea, L.). Bast fibre. 
Bririsu.——India. 
India, where the plant is largely cultivated, would appear to 
be the only commercial source, over 5000 tons a year being e ex- 
ported to England. 
The plant is found in Ceylon and Burma; distributed He 
Malaya and Australia; introduced to Lagos Botanic Station, 
seeds being sent from Kew in 1885; cultivated experimentally in 
Ceylon and Italy. 
K.B. Add. Ser. ix. part u. p. 181. 
European Hemp (Cannabis sativa, L. ). Bast fibre. 
Brrrisu.—India. Forrrgn.—Russia, Germany, Italy, Japan, 
Belgium, France, Austria-Hungary, “Unite d States. ‘The prin- 
cipal Foreign source is Russia, from whence in 1913 this Pores 
imported 12,818 tons, value £432,201. and in 1915—582]1 tons, 
value £260,368. According tw Watt (Comm. Prod. India), the 
exports: oes oe *” from Tudia are mainly in the afore-men- 
tioned “Sunn ”’ or ‘‘ Sann”’ Hemp (Crotalaria juncea). 
Jute Sone capsularis, L.). Bast fibre. 
Brivisu.—India; principal centre of the trade, Bengal. Im- 
ports into the United Kingdom 1913—347,548 tons, value 
£9,182 ,226. 
Cultivated experimentally in Nigeria and other parts of West 
Tica. 
K.B. Add. Ser. ix. part i. p. 109. 
Bimlipatam Jute (Hibiscus cannabinus, L.). Bast fibre. 
Britiss.—India; principal centre of the trade, Madras. Im 
ported as Jute in association with the above mentioned. Cu Iti- 
vated in Nigeria and French West Africa. Grows wild in the 
Gambia, ied and widely distributed in Tropical Africa where 
it is believed to be indigenous. The plant is also known as 
‘““Ambari Hemp,’ “Deccan Hemp,’ “Indian Hemp,” 
“Bastard Jute,” etc. 
K.B. Add. Ser. ii. p. 9; ix. part 1. p. 70. 
China Jute (Abutilon Avicennae, Gaertn.). Bast fibre. 
Foretcn.—China. 
mported into this country as ‘‘ China Jute,’’ but usually in 
association ae Jute proper (Corchorus capsularis). Grows 
wild in N.W. India 
_K.B. Add. Ser. ii. os 259. 
