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



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According to Engelmann, Perrine and Schott described under this 

 name a wild Euagave of Yucatan which they supposed (or were 

 informed) was the wild original of Yashqui and Sacqui (q.v.) = 

 Agave sisalana, Perrine and Agave longifolia, Engelmann of this 

 Bulletin. There is no sufficient evidence at present that either of 

 these plants exists in a wild state in Yucatan or elsewhere; 

 but it is just possible that Perrine referred to the Euagave 

 known as A, decipiens, Baker (K of this Bulletin). When the 

 text was written we were not aware that Dr. Perrine had introduced 

 several distinct kinds of Euagave from Yucatan into Florida. 

 Agave ixtlioides of Bot. Mag. is near Baker's A. decipiens, and was 

 supposed in the same wwy to resemble Agave Ixtle of Karwinski 

 from Yucatan which was credited with ' Ixtle ' fibre. See also 

 Ixtle, Silk Hemp t SilJc grass and Ixtli. 



Roxburgh conjectured that the China grass of his time, used for 

 fishing lines, &c., was obtained from this plant. As Sir George Watt 

 has already pointed out, we do not really know what the modern 

 China grass is produced from, or whether it is always got from the 

 same species ; but the China grass of present commerce is ascribed 



, to species of Boehmeria (of the Nettle family, Nat. Ord. Urtica* 

 ceae) see Canton Hemp also Bowstring Hemp (1). 



The Rhea, Ramie, Ortie blanche, &c. 



Brandy made from the sugarcane (molasses presumably) as distin- 

 guished from Agave spirit, Aguardiente de maguay, whichlsee, also 

 Aguardiente. 



In Malayalam Chenna Nayalcam, Of. KadanaJeu also Jeeni 

 Jcattalai. 



Cf. Chucumci. 



Prom the earlier accounts of Western India both the Aloe and 

 Agave seem to have been called ' Kan war, ' i.e., ' thorny,' the Aloe 

 being the lesser, the Agave the greater Kamvar respectively. 



45, 51 ; This looks like a French rendering of some Spanish or Carib name. 

 Whatever the plant may be it is not so far identified with Agave 

 (J) of this Bulletin --= Wight's A. vivipara: but it is perhaps the 

 plant mentioned by Mart tus (Beitrag, p. 10) as figured by Oviedo 

 in his supplementary Ms. 



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Not identified ; reported by Schott as yielding a coarse fibre. Cf . 

 Chom. 



Identified by De Laet with ' the Maguey of the Mexicans ' : the 

 Aloe sccunda of Sloane is A. americana of Linn&us. 



