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The starch when sufficiently clean and pure is then dried on 

 clean paper or other clean surface by exposure to air and sun, 

 and packed in bags, barrels or boxes for market/ A good yield 

 is given at from 13,000-15,000 lb. of roots yielding an average 

 of 22 cwt. of air-dried starch per acre (see Kew Bull. 1893, for 

 full particulars of planting, manufacture and yield, pp. 194-198), 



Ref, — " Amylura Marantae," in Pharmacographia, Fliickiger 

 & Hanbury, pp. 629-633 (Macmillan & Co. London, 1879). — 

 '* The Preparation of Arrowroot in Bermuda," Journ. Soc. Arts. 



XXXV, 1887, pp. 801-802. Arrowroot, Maranta arundinacea in 



Trop. Agric. NichoUs, pp. 278-283 (Macmillan & Co. London, 



1891). *' St. Vincent Arrowroot," Kew Bull., 1893, pp. 191-- 



204. "Bermuda Arrowroot," Kew Bull., 1898, pp. 50-51. 



" Maranta arundinacea^^' in Diet. Econ, Prod. India, 



Watt, V. 1891, pp. 180-185. -' Maranta arundinacea,'' in 



Comm. Prod. India, Watt, pp. 773-774. ** Bermuda Arrow- 



root, 



99 



566-569 



Calathea, G. F. Meyer. 



Calathea conferta, Benth. ; Fl. Trop. Afr. VII. p. 327_ 



[Phrynium confertum, K. Schum. in Engl. Pfl, Marant. p. 56.] 



IlL — De Wildeman, Mission E. Laurent, t* 54 {Phrynium 



conjertum). 



Vernac. name, — Subi grande (Golungo Alto, Ridley). 

 ' Oban, S. Nigeria (Talbot, No. 884, Herb. Kew) ; Cameroon* 

 Mts.— 3000 ft. (Mann, No. 2144, Herb. Kew); Kibbi— Akim 

 Gold Coast (Johnson, No. 246, Herb. Kew) and in Angola. 



Promiscuously mixed with Clinogyne purpurea^ which like 

 this plant is called *' 8ubi " by the natives. '' Subi " signifies 

 a textile plant — this is the " Subi grande," Angola (Ridley, 

 Journ. Bot. 1887, p. 133, Phryniurn textile). 



Found growing 4-5 ft. high in swamps, Gold Coast (Johnson 

 I.e.). Cultivated at Kew (1914) and Brussels (1901) as a decora- 

 tive plant (Synonym. Maranta Lujaiana), first noted in Revue 

 Horticole, 1900, p,^ 853. 



The tubers of *' Topee Tambou " (of Dominica & Trinidad)? 

 or '' Allouya " of the Carib people {Calathea Allouya, lindl.) are- 

 used ^s food — boiled and eaten hke the ordinary potato in Trinidad 

 and Dominica (see Kew Bull. 1892, pp. 244-245), 



Caxna, Linn. 



Canna indica, Linn.; FL Trop. Afr. VII. p. 328. 



///. — Rheede, Hort. Mai. xi, t. 43 ; Gaertner, Fruct. Sem. PI. i. 

 t. 12; Buchoz, Herb. Col. Ameriq. t. 4; Lam. Encycl. t. 1; 

 Bot. Beg, (1823) t. 776; Bot. Mag. t. 454; Redoute, Choix FL 

 iv. t. 201; Desc. Ant. iv. t. 240; Roscoe, Scitamineae, tt. 1 

 (C. indica), 12 (C. orientulis); Nicholson, Diet. Gard. i. p. 261 

 (habit); Bertoloni, Misc. Bot. xx. t. 1 {C. bidentata); Gartenti. 



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