[ 115 1 

 Af/aveae (also certain other fibre plant**) or to their products. 



22, 41, It is not clear what Martins supposed his cktilulqui to be ; he refers 



69, 70. the fibre of Yucatan to several species, such as Furcraea cubensis, 



F. tuberosa, Agave Jacquiniana, A lurida, A. Ixtle. At present 



the only species known to yield Sisal Hemp are A. tisalana, 



Perrine and A. longifolia, Engelmann. 



34 See Mag way de Cocuy. 



Ditto, 



and Cf. Cognise. 



... The central cone of leaves in certain Agaves : in the species that 

 yield 'Tampico fibre,' the 'cogollo* is removed from the living 

 plant to be treated for fibre. 



A Mexican beverage made from certain species of Agave. 

 34, 41 Meaning not traced. Cf. Cocuy za. 



41, 43 See the next, also Great American Aloes. 



41, 48 Browne supposed his plant to be the same as the A. americana of 

 writers on Mexico, but Martius referred it to Fourcroya cubensis, 

 which the description will not suit, we think. He lays stress on its 

 detergent properties. See Keratto, also Caraguata (1). 



22 The ' heart* or central cone of the Pulque-yielding Euagaves at poling 

 time, which is removed to make the cavity for sap collection 

 (Cajett). 



20 This item is one in a long list headed 'Agave sp.,' which, however, also 

 includes ' Aloe perfoliata ropes,' &c. Under Part I we have not 

 mentioned the true aloe as a source of fibre, because evidence of its 

 present use is wanting. Cf. the next, and Country aloes (2). 



20 As the same local list (for Mysore) contains Long Aloe (A. vivipara) 

 and Short Aloe (A. americana^, and ' cauthaulay ' is given us the 

 equivalent, the * Country aloes ' fibre should have been from a true 

 aloe, but Kattali is now the name at Bangalore of an Agave. 



20 (* Or Cuthala nar y .) If this was the same fibre as the Country aloes 

 of 1855, it may have been from an Aloe; Royle supposed that it was 

 from an Agave and the experiments have been quoted for Agave 

 americana by subsequent writers. There seems no doubt that cord- 

 age has been made in S. India with fibre from the true Aloe, but 

 not recently at least on a commercial scale. 



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