GLOSSARY OF WEST INDIAN TERMS 373 



SOUR ORANGE — CUtus vulgaHs Risso, a tree with a scattered 



distribution about estates or villages, useless in itself, 



but valuable as a stock. 

 STRAINER — the fibrous canvas-like material developed at maturity 



from the sheathing base of the coconut leaf. 

 Sudan grass — Andropogon Sorghum sudanensis, Piper. 

 SUPPLIES — plants or cuttings used to fill up gaps in a planted 



field. 

 SYRUP — cane juice concentrated in open pans. 

 SWEET POTATO — Ipomcea batatas. 



tannia — cultivated aroids of the genus Xanthosoma. 

 TRASH — the old dry leaves, especially of sugar-cane and banana. 

 Uba — a thin reed-like sugar-cane of the Indian type, used to 



some extent in the West Indies for planting on poor land. 

 yam — Dioscorea spp. 



