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



19,37 



19,37 



41,52 



20 



15 



10, 71 



Of. Kathalay, Kathali, Kattalay, etc. 



Do. 



Do. 



!f. Ketaki, Keura, Kia, Koyan, etc., and the next, 

 this ' Key a: Called ' Kekel t ' ' Keker ' in Malaya. 



Dodge spells 



'or other names and scientific designations see Bengal Plants, 

 p. 1101. Species of Pandanus are native in different parts of 

 India, but those usually found in hedges or near temples in 

 Bengal were probably imported from Malaya. 



See Palkande. Probably a dialectic form of Kanta. 



Originally Caraguata (which see) but in Jamaica and other West 

 Indian Islands now commonly applied to species of Agave and 

 Furcraea. 



Cf. the next, Ketki, Ketukeeand. Ketgi. 



Cf . the preceding and following. 

 See the next also, and Banskeora. 



Cf . Ketaki, etc. 



In the drier parts of India Agave Wightii (J) has made itself at home, 

 and has acquired fairly constant local names, such as Ketki and 

 Banskeora.* 



Fibre of leaves proposed as a paper stock ; identification doubtful, 

 possibly an Agave. 



= Ketaki. 



Cf. Banskeora i also Mellis kyre, etc. : Keura is the ordinary N.-W. 

 Indian name for Pandanus. Forskohl (See Kadi) notes that a plant 

 which was evidently a Pandanus was grown in S. W. Arabia in his 

 day and called Keura by the ' Banians ' (i.e.. Hindu traders). 



See Bengal Plants, 1101, where ' Keorkanta ' (Bengali) is given for 

 P. foetidus, Boxb. 



Probably (J) brought from the Deccan and planted about forts and 

 settlements by the BoMllas, as in the Ganges Doal. 



' Matta,' ' Motta ' or 'Mat ha ' is frequent in the names of Agaves in 

 S. India (from Mata=Devi ?); for ' Kanora,' cf. Kanur, Kunvar i 

 and for the first syllable kea, gMkomar, etc. 



