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



21, 41 

 , 10, 71 



7, 10, 71 

 7,10,71 



55 

 17 



1,6, 7, 

 16, 30, 

 Go to 

 67,70 



20, &c. 



20 



35, 38, 

 50 



See Henequen and Sisal Hemp. 



(D) of Bulletin. Cf. Yenuga Kalalanda, etc. 



Ditto 

 Ditto 



Ditto 

 Ditto 



Ditto. 

 Ditto. 



Probably Ag:ive (J) i.e., our A. Wightii. 



Mr. K'ooth notes that the Brush fibre expoited through Matamoras 

 may be from tbe Palma loca (See Palma) or from various forms 

 of the Espadillo. We do not know t > what plants Espadillo is 

 applied, but it is perhaps a version of the Mexican ' Ixtle ' [see 

 Ixtle (3) and Mexican fibre (1)] and applied in part to one or more 

 Euagaves. 



This is probably one of the Yucatan Euagaves of which local (Maya) 

 names are given by Perrine, Schott and Martins, and may be their 

 ' Chelem ' or ' Wild Henequen'. It may further be the Agave 

 ixtlioides of KarwinsJci and the A. rigida (wrongly so-mimed) of 

 Engelmann ^not of Miller). It has run wild in Florida, and was 

 imported by mistake as Sisal to the Bahamas. Known only in 

 Botanic Gardens in India. It is not in good repute as a fibre-yielder, 

 but it can readily be distinguished. 



A valuable kind of lace, formerly prepared in Fayal (Azores group) 

 with thread prepared from the fibre of an Agavea, perhaps 

 A. americana, Linn, or A. Vera Cruz, Miller, The comparative 

 abundnnce of one or more Agaves in the Atlantic Islands 

 (including St. Helena) is remarkable, but their introduction is due 

 probably to human agency, though the bulbils are believed to survive 

 immersion in sea-water. 



This term is said to stand in Spanish also for the fibre of ' Agave 

 americana.' 



See Aloe americana. The plant of which De Lecluse took an 

 off =-et from Valencia to Antwerp was very likely our D = Agave 

 Vera Cruz, Mill., but that which the butch introduced to N. 

 Europe (from tbe West Indies, or by way of the Far East) is 

 different, being A. americana of Bot. Mag. 3654 and, earlier, of 

 Linnaeus. Tbe Valentian name means ' thread and needle.' Cf. 

 'Eve's thread '= Yucca Jilamentosa; Adam's Needle (above); 

 and 'Anana de Agulha* applied in S. America to the fibre-yielding 

 Ananas Iracteatus, Schult. In the Spice Islands the Dutch 

 settlers called an Agave 'Naeldendraet' which had probably a like 

 signification. 



