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Present and Future," Birdwood, in Journ. Soc. Arts. lii. 



March 25th, 1904, pp. 395-409. "Ramie, Rhea, or China 



Grass," Bull. Imp. Inst. iii. 1905, pp. 55-59. " Ramie, Rhea, 



China Grass," Bull. Dept. Agric. Jamaica, iv. Dec. 190G, pp. 

 285-304.-^—" Rhea Experiments in India," Coventry, in Agric. 



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London, 1908). " Ramie," in Col. Rep. Misc. No. 58, 1909, 



pp. 20-24. Ramie (Rhea) China Grass : The New Textile Fibre 



Carter, pp. 1-140 (Tech. Pub. Co. Ltd. Chancery Lane, London, 



1910). "Ramie Wool," Agric. News, Barbados, Oct. 29th, 



1910, p. 344, from Trop. Agric. Aug. 1910, p. 108. " Ramie," 



in Report of His Majesty's Commissioners for the Inter. Exhib. 

 at Brussels, Rome and Turin, 1910-11, pp. 323-325 (Ballantyne & 



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CASUARINEAE. 



Casuarina, Linn. 



Casuarina 



A tree 40-60 ft. liigh, evergreen, trunk straight in avenues or 

 under protection ; but Hable to become gnarled and twisted in 

 exposed situations. Male spikes about i in., female peduncled. 

 Fruit f in. diam. with about 12 rows of puberulous achenes 

 (Fl. Br. India, v. p. 598). 



/W.— Rumpf. Amb. iii. t. 57; Lam. Encycl. t. 746: Lodd. 

 Bot. Cab. t. 607 ; Schnizlein, Ic. ii. t. 86 ; Vidal, Fl. For Filip 

 t. 91; Safford, PI. Guam (Contr. U.S. Nat. Herb, ix 1905) 

 t. 41 (Male & Female fl. & fruit). 



Beefwood, Polynesian Ironwood, Swamp Oak, She Oak, Bull 

 Oak, Forest Oak, Filao Wood (Mauritius). Cedre ou Filao 

 (Seychelles), 



Native of the Andaman Islands; in the island of Little 

 Andaman, where the tree is plentiful on the coast, the Anda- 

 manese name for the island is said to mean " Casuarina Sand 

 (Pram Proc. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, Dec. 1891, p. 157) and in 

 N. Andaman, a bay where the tree is plentiful, is distinguished 

 as Casuarina Bay" (I.e. 1890, p. 242). Distributed to the 

 Malay Islands, Pacific and Australia; cultivated in India 

 Mauritms, West Indies, &c. 



At Lagos, for the March Quarter 1899, it was reported that 

 the seeds suppHed by the Royal Gardens, Kew, had succeeded 

 and the tree thrived luxuriantly along the sand beaches near 

 the sea (Kew Bull. 1891, p. 47, C. muricota). 



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