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



7, 8, 25, Evidently Ixtle : applied to an Agave said 'to be naturalized in 

 64, 65, 711 Burma, if that be the same with one cultivated at Saharanpur 

 in N.-W. India Agave (A) of our list, which again is very like a 

 form cultivated at Kew from the Turks or Caicos group of islands 

 (in the Bahamas). When Parts I and II were written we were not 

 aware that Perrine had introduced more than the one spocios of 

 Agave into Florida, but it seems that he planted out several Eua- 

 gaves, all from Yucatan apparently (some were for experimental 

 purposes most likely). This erives special interest to the plant illus- 

 trated in Miss Mulford's Plates 60 and 61 and an undetermined 

 Agave from the Perrine grant (S. Florida), which is in all probability 

 one of Perrine's imported Euagaves (see Dodge's Plate III). We 

 have followed the American authorities in leaving this plant with- 

 out name pending further information, but in the light of the above 

 it evidently merits examination as a source of fibre. It is not un- 

 likely that the Agave Ixtli of Karvvinski from Yucatan received 

 its specific name on the supposition that it was the fibre 'Istle' of 

 the country : this, if not actually the same as Baker's Agave deci- 

 piens (the false Sisal), is very near to it, and may be the wild * kind 

 of Engelmann. Perrine may, we think, have imported (among 

 others possibly) (i) A sisalana=(G) (ii), Agave (A), and (iii) A, 

 decipiens, Baker = (K); and if there is or was an Euagave known ns 

 Ixtle in the Maya country, our A and not Karwinski's plant perhaps 

 represents it. How it has become naturalized in Burma remains 

 to be discovered. 



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Possibly in part the same as Temple's Istle, i.e., Istle 9 (2). Major 

 Barnard (U. S. A.) reportea on it from the Isthmus of Tehuantepec 

 (Gulf of Carnpeachy), but diverse products were perhaps included 

 under the one name, at least one being probably an Agave. 



See Istle (1), Mexican fibre, Pita pinuella, and Silk grass. Spon's 

 contributor has unfortunately confused the Istle of S. E. Mexico 

 and Nicaragua with that of the dry north (Zacatecas, Tula, 

 Sinaloa, Coahuila, etc.), for which see the next and ' Tampico fibre* 



The species of Agave which yield ' Tampico fibre ' (chiefly used 

 in brush-making) belong for the most part to a different section of 

 the genus from the Euagaves. None have been so far planted in 

 any part of India except here and there in gardens. See also 

 Broom root, Brush fibre (1) and (2), Mexican fibre, Tampico fibre 

 and Eeju. 



This belongs to the Euagave section, but has nothing to do with the 

 Mescal of the southern parts of Mexico. It is practically unknown 

 in India. 



A spelling (morj correct perhaps) of Ixtle, which see, also Istle (1) 

 and (2). 



See Ixtilli and Yxtli. 



