6 MEXICAN RESOURCES. 



ticable, — the author here presents statistics valuable to those interested in the 

 industrial possibilities of Mexico. This information has been obtained almost 

 entirely from Mexican sources, and, though perhaps incomplete, is at least an 

 approach to that accuracy so desirable in a statement of Mexico's material re- 

 sources, and valuable as an offset to the misrepresentations of misinformed or 

 prejudiced writers. 



Many of the names in the following list, being native to the countrv, generally 

 Aztec, are not found in any Spanish dictionary ; but all the most important woods, 

 fruits, etc., are given, with not only the indigenous appellations, but their English 

 equivalents. The flora of Mexico is rich and varied, embracing, says its statisti- 

 cian, over ten thousand species, known and analyzed. Her woods are valuable, 

 a great number of her native plants have medicinal qualities, and her flowers are 

 beautiful and of exquisite fragrance. 



These lists comprise mainly those Mexican plants valuable for their properties, 

 and those interesting from flowering at a great altitude, and typical of the table- 

 lands ; a strictly scientific classification has not been adopted, as this would have been 

 impracticable. 



TIMBER AND CONSTRUCTION WOODS. 



