C 161 J 

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



19,20 



10,71 



37 



10, 71 



24 



26, 38, & 



58 



19 



18, 19, 



It ia not quite clear whether the older authorities regarded 

 ' Muraga' or 'Murga* as derived from Murva. The ordinary 

 word for a gamecock is commonly derived through the Persian 

 from the Arabic, but the wild bird ia Indo- Malayan, and ' Murva' 

 is given by some authors as a variant of ' Murgha/ so the word 

 may be originally Indian. In N. India Sansevieria is as much 

 an incomer as Agave (see 13engal Plants, 1054), and when Murga 

 is applied in N. India to Agave, the allusion is plainly to the 

 'terrible spurs' as an American writer calls the spines of certain 

 species. The habit of the leaves in Sansevieria may have earlier 

 suggested a fanciful resemblance to the spur of a ' Bantam* 



See the last, and Mordha. 



Prom the Arabic name of the true Aloe (see Sabr, etc.) and a 

 common term for the drug throughout India, but in S. India 

 locally applied also to a ' size ' or 'glue* used in house decoration, 

 much as gilder's size is used in Europe; it seems possible that this it 

 obtained from an Agave. See Mysore Aloes also. 



Cf . Motta Munjee Nar, Scyi Mutta, etc. 



A species of the true Aloe is understood to be common in Myu>re, but 

 the gilder's cement or size called ' Musanibra ' and said 'to be got 

 from ' Mysore Aloes ' may be from an Agave. See Sedge Aloi 

 (2) however. 



Meaning ' Alligator Pineapple.' 



Meaning ' Wild Pineapple.' From Rumpf's account it would seem 

 that more than one Agave had reached the Indian seas by the middle 

 of the 17th Century, for the merits of the fibre were even then 

 disputed. See also toe next and the preceding. 



Meaning ' Foreign pineapple.' HassTcarl himself later identified this 

 with our Agave (E.)=^. Cantata Koxb. (see his Neuer Schluesiel 

 etc., 1866) and with the 'Nanas Costa' of Java mentioned by 

 Miquel. 



In several languages of S. India signifies ' cord/ ' thread,' or 'fibre.' 

 In Hindustani it is a 'ligament* or ' sinew.' 



This is not Hernandez ' Negtuametl unless the figures have been mis- 

 placed by his editor : that looks like an Agave of the Littaea se< 

 tion, or, as Martius suggests, a Dasylirion, 



