How is JUTE CLASSED BY 

 DR. FORBES WATSON ? 



As a second-class fibre. 

 (Report on Rheea, p. 6.) 



How is THE CALOTROPIS CLASS- 

 ED BY DR. FORBES WATSON ? 



As a first-class fibre. (Re- 

 port on Rheea, p. 6.) 



I append a list of fibre-yielding plants, to which I 

 desire most respectfully to draw the attention of the 

 Indian Government. Most of them are indigenous 

 to the country, and those that are not have become 

 so naturalised as to accommodate themselves to most 

 latitudes. They require no high or expensive culture ; 

 their fibres may be extracted by the most simple and 

 inexpensive process ; and the last two named will 

 grow in poor, stony, dry situations, or sandy, salt 

 soils. 



1. Grewia Asiatica. 



2. Pandanus Odoratissimus. 



3. Daphne. 



4. Agave Americana. 



5. Sanseviera Zeylonica. 



