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



Bulletin, 

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10,71 

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18,19 



Probably Agave (J). 



We have not been able to determine the species, but thw mny 

 be=Agave (A), the Burma species. (See Ixtilli). 



Cf . the following. 



See Pita and Ka 



Probably Agave (D) is intended. 



Agave (D). 



Ceiba belongs to a very different class of fibres from the Agaveae 

 viz., the bast of the Tiliaceae, Stereuliaceae, etc., but ivv t>* 

 next. 



Possibly a Yucca or a Manfreda. 



The outer leaves of Euagave as distinguished from the Cog olio or 

 Corazon. Taken from the artichoke or thistle (cardcn). 



See Aloe (2), Patha, and Wild aloe. 



Cf. Peetha lealabanda. 



Dodge questions the identification, 



i.e. Century Plant. 



' Fourcroyafoetida ' should be Furcraea gigantea, Vent. Pre-Linnaean 

 botanists knew this as 'Aloe Americana folio viridi, fyc.' and this is 

 probably the origin of ' Aloes vert ' and the ' Agave viridis * of 

 S. Indian Catalogues. Through the French 'pite.' 



Boerbaave says that the thread was used by shoemakers in Curacoa, 

 and that the name was given to the plant From the fibre. Cf . also 

 Pita de zapateros, and Pit. 



