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Latex, continued 

 tubes, 41, 42 

 vessels, 48 



vessels, in Hevea, 43, 45 

 vessels, in Manihot^ 43 

 vessels, volume of, 67 

 yield at certain seasons, 92 



Latices, mixing of, 204 



Laticiferous system, 43, 44 

 in Funtumia, 42 

 in the seedling, 46, 47 



Lettcaena glauca, 118 



Lining and spacing, 106 



Macadam's comb pricker, 133 

 Machinery, agricultural, 99, 1 1 5 

 Machines, cre'ping, 162 



macerating, 162 



sheeting, 161 



Macintosh, Charles, and Co., i 

 Madagascar, 33 



Malaya, estimated export of rubber 

 from, 13 



labour in, 123, 124 



plantation yields in, 152 



planting distances in, 106 



rate of growth in, 1 1 1 



tools used in, 126 



wages in, 125 

 Mandrel, 228 

 Mangabeira rubber, 28 

 Manitoba rubber, 26 

 Manihot dickototna, 26, 204 

 Manihot Glaziovii (Ceara rubber), 

 6, 8, 24, 43, 197, 200 et seq. 



formation of latex vessels, 47 



laticiferous system of, 202 



wound response in, 59 

 Manihot heptaphylla, 26 

 Manihot piauhyensis, 26 

 Manufacture of latex, 69 



of rubber goods, 220 et seq. 



calendering, 227 



colouring matter, 224 



drying, 222 



mastication and mixing, 223 



sulphur in, 224 



vacuum driers, 223 



washing, 221 



Manuring, 115, 116 



at Peradeniya, 116 



green, 117 



phosphates, 116 



potash, 116 



Mariaella Dussumieri, 181 

 Markets, rubber, 169 

 Markham, Sir Clements, proposes 



plantations, 5 



Marking the tree, 140 et seq. 

 Mascarhenasia elastica, 34 

 Mauritius, 7 

 Medullary rays, 44, 49 

 Mexico, Guayule rubber, 30 



rubber planting in, n 

 Million acres, produce of, 13 

 Morris, Sir Daniel, on Ficus elastica, 



208 

 Motor tyres, 228, 232 



Nerve, 171 



New Guinea, 36 



Nigeria, Southern, Funtuwia'm, 207 



Nodules, 192 



outbreak in Ceylon, 193 

 Nurseries, 99 

 Nyassaland, Ceara in, 204 



Oil, from rubber seeds, 121 

 Omaquas Indians, 4 

 Overtapping, 78 



Packing, 168 



Pao di Xirringa (syringe tree), 4, 



21 

 Para, hard, price of, 14 



rubber, 3, 21, and see Hevea 

 brasiliensis 



rubber, export of, 4 

 Parameria glandulifera, 35 

 Paring, basal system, 139 



full herring-bone, 139 



full spiral, 139 



half-herring-bone, 137 



half-spiral, 139 



physiological effect of, 79 



process, 143 



systems of, 137 

 Parkes' cold process, 233 



