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



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REMARKS 



13, G8,69 In 1834 Dr. Perrine, U. S. Consul at Cam peachy, submitted a report 

 to his Government on the fibres of the Yucatan Peninsula, in 

 which he described the ' Henequen ' as fibre made in Yucatan 

 from different kinds of Agaveae, of which he selected the 

 ' Yashqui hennequin ' as the best for cultivation inj his own 

 country. In 1838 he introduced different species from the 

 Peninsula of Yucatan to that of Florida, where his life was 

 sacrificed during an incursion of the Indian tribes from the inter- 

 ior. Since his time ' Henequin' or, as it is now usually spelled, 

 1 Henequen ' has become a fibre of first rate importance in several 

 countries, and Perrine's selected species has been introduced 

 successfully into Bengal and Mysore in India. It is said 

 that other staples have been largely mixed at the ports of 

 the Gulf of Mexico with that got from the Euagaves, but the 

 term ' Henequen ' is still properly applicable to the best qualities 

 of Yucatan Euagave fibre. (See also Sisal Hemp.) It must be 

 remembered at the same time that the sort mostly grown in that 

 Peninsula is not Perrine's ' Sisalana, though closely resembling it. 

 For outside countries Perrine's is believed to be superior to it. 



2 This is no doubt quite correct as regards some local usage. Under 

 Aloe Yuccae foliis Sloane quotes Hermann and other authors who 

 had intended either forms of Yucca, or of the small Anaves that 

 have ' thready ' leaf -margins, none of which have yet been tried 

 on a market scale in India. 



70 This seems to be well known and appreciated in parts of Australia. 

 Oviedo's actual spelling. See Henequen (2) for details. 



70 So spelled, apparently, in Perrine's original report, which we have not 

 seen, nor his articles in Silliman's Journal. We have followed 

 Engelmann as regards the spelling in this case. Cf . Henequen (3), 



etc. 



5 I Bulbils or young plants developed on the parent branches in the place 

 of seeds by a process of proliferous germination in Euagave and 

 Furcraea. 



15, 55 



We include these and other terms, though the books are somewhat 

 out of date, because they are not unlikely to recur locally in the 

 course of business. 



; See Coztic Metl. (We have not been able to give more than a few of 

 the names in Hernandez). 



Cultivated near Bolanos in the state of Jalisco for fibre. Species 

 not determined. Identified with the Bastard Tequila (which see, 

 also Tequila). 



