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Agaveae (also certain other fibre plants) or to their products. 



Bulletin, 

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21, 22, 



24, 63, 



64 



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Applied to fibre or prepared yarn obtained from different species of 

 Agaveae. 



The sap that exudes into the basin (cajete) formed by cutting out the 

 vegetative cone or ' bud ' of certain Agaves when about to 'pole', 

 to obtain the ' Pulque 'or native cider of Mexico. Literally ' mead', 

 ' honey water', or ' hydromel.' Some authorities state that a spirit 

 (Aguardiente, see below) is got from this liquor by a further process; 

 also vinegar. 



The true Agave americana of Linnrous, our (B), does not seein to be 

 one of the ' Pulque ' kinds, but in any case what Martins had in 

 view was a different species. 



' Fire-water,' or Brandy. 



Rose states that the spirit sold at the present day in Mexico as 

 Aguardiente ' is distilled from ' Cane/ presumably from molasses 

 (but sac the next, also ' CMnguirito '). 



12, 22 ! See ' Agua de Miel,' ' CMnguirito' and the preceding. 



21 (By a misprint in Danielli^//a^ev). Fragoso identifies his Allaguey 

 with the Fit y Agulla of S. Spain which is our (D) =A. Vera Cruz, 

 Mill. Probably corrupted from the Spanish 'El Maguey,' 

 Cf. 'Amaguey.' 



37 The species known under this name prior to the discovery of America 

 belong to the genus Aloe t Nat. Ord. Liliaceae. The word is 

 probably derived in Europe through the West Asian languages from 

 | an African original. Most of the truej aloes are natives of West or 

 South Africa and the adjacent islands ; but at least one species is 

 found in S. Europe and an allied form on the coasts of India ; while 

 another form (Aloe indica of Koyle) occurs at the base of the 

 N.-W. Himalaya. The leaves of certain species of Agave resemble 

 those of the true Aloe, so that when the Agaveae of the new World 

 came under notice they were classed with the Aloes, and this refer- 

 ence, though recognised scientifically as an error since the time of 

 Linnaeus, has persisted in the popular vocabulary of different 

 countries to the present. Economically the true Aloes are chiefly 

 important as the source of a drug, while the Agaveae (' American 

 Aloe/ etc.) are best known as yielding fibre, 



A dwarf palm (Palmetto) found in the Indus Valley from the Salt 

 Range southwards, and more abundantly in parts of Afghanistan and 

 Beluchistan, called in Pashtu ' Mazrai* , W. Panjab ' Pattha,' and 

 by the Piluch * Pesh' etc. Better known under Griffith's name of 

 ' Chamaerops Eitchieana,' having been referred by hii i to the 

 same genus as the Mediterranean Chamaerops humilis, Linn. Like 

 the Palmettos of Florida, now placed under Sabal and Serenoa, 

 the Oriental Palmetto yields a fibre, but its local use is chiefly for 

 ' grass-shoes ' cr sandals, binding strips, and matmaking (see Pesh 

 and Wild Aloe). The 'fish' plant elsewhere mentioned by Masson 

 is no doubt the same. 



