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



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REMARKS 



12, 13, 

 22, 49, 



71 



Mr. Nelson's Tequila seems to be the same as the preceding, exclud- 

 ing possibly the suggested identity with ' Huila.' It is grown in 

 large plantations in the State of Jalisco (capital Tequila), 

 Mr. Nelson's figure (Plate XXXV), which we had not seen when 

 Parts I and II were written, shows an Euagave, of the Sisalana 

 group, apparently, very closely rdsembling our Agaves (E) and (P), 

 but especially the latter, which is Mr. Gamble's " mexicana" If, 

 as eeems not unlikely, certain of the species naturalized in India 

 came originally from the Tequila and Zapotlan country, then 

 possibly 



T? = 'A. mexicana' of Gamble (and probably T. Moore), may 

 be= Tequila; 



J = A. TFightii ot -this Bulletin (A. vivipara of Wight) = Bastard 

 Tequila ; 



E=-4. Cantala Roxb. A.. vivipara of Rose of which the des- 

 cription is not that of Wight's ' vivipara/ but would fit our (E) 

 or Baker's A. laxa. See the preceding, also Bastard Tequila, 

 and Huila. 



' Cf. Tale Nar. Spelled Thaulay Nar also. Pandanus is often spoken 

 of as a fibre plant, but the commonest use seems to be by cutting 

 strips from the leaf for mat-making, etc., rather than by extraction 

 of the actual fibre. 



Nanut = Pine apple ? 



49, 61, Zuccagui refers Hernandez' plant to A. Tkeometel, Zuccagni. The 

 trunk in Hernandez* representation is suggestive of Agave (J), but 

 the leaves are quite different. Theometel extract was in great 

 repute as an anti-periodic drug. It may not be an Euagave, and is 

 seemingly unknown in India. 



See Toucon. 

 \ See Bois de Heche, etc. 



Sloane cites these with a query under the title quoted, which includes 

 Henequen, etc. It was probably the fibre attributed by Squier to 

 the Ticu palm of 'marshy grounds of the Orinoco' and the ' Tecum' 

 as to which there is great confusion, but the different fibres under 

 these names are got from different species of palm and not from 

 any of the Agaveae. 



Short curled or interlaced fibres, from certain Agavece, Yuccas, and 

 JBromeliceae, as distinguished from the long staple of the best 

 species of Furcraea and Euagave (Sansevieria also). 



Cf. Kantal or KatTial. This is probably not the Jack fruit however, 

 but the Getah Tarap=A. Kunstleri, King of which Ridley (Flora 

 of Singapore) says the bast is used for cordage and cloth-weaving. 

 Mr. Ridley elsewhere says that locally fibre is got from an Agave 

 but we do not know what the species may be. 



