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



15,71 



Ditto 



ditto. 



11 See Samla Kattalai. 



18,19 



Also spelled ' Cuttalay .' Of. Seemai Kattalai. 



18, 19 j Cf. the preceding. 



18, 19 'The small Aloe', and.' should therefore be a true Aloe, but see the 

 preceding. 



Cf. also the preceding. 



38 The true Aloe, and hence the Agave, was" called ' Sempervivuin ' 

 and ' Aizoon* in Mediaeval Europe with reference to their tenacity of 

 life, but the connected traditions (see Sdb-r) are of Syrian (or 

 Nubian) origin. 



20 : See Sabbare, Salr, and Saparra. 



37 ; The scientific names of this and Long Aloe seem to have been trans- 

 posed (See Long Aloe}. 



17-22 Spon's reference is correct for the coast from the Gulf of Campeachy 

 to near Yera Cruz, where a 'fine* fibre seems to be obtained from a 

 Bromeliad which is probably the species quoted = Karatas Plumieri 

 of E. Morren, and perhaps the ' Sromelia Karatis ' of which Squier 

 gives an illustration. See Anana de pite, Bromelia Pite, Cara- 

 guata (1) Caraguata V, Caroata, Curratow, Oravata. Grawatha, 

 Henequen (1), Istle (1) and (2), Ixtle (1) and (2), Ixtli (1) 

 Karaota, Mexican Fibre (3), Pinuella, Pita (3), Pita Sromelia, 

 and Pita de Zapateros, also the following. 



N 2 



