688 



Madras/' I.e. iv. 1906, pp. 23-29. -''The Literature of 



Fitrcraea with a Synopsis of the Known Species," Drummond, 



in 18th Rep. ]\Iis80uri Bot. Garden, 1907, pp. 25-75, '' Sisal, 



Mauritius Hemp and other ' Aloe ' Fibres,'' Sim, in Xatal Agric. 



Journ. X. July 1907, pj). 743-756 with illust. of machinery. 



** Fibre Cultivation (Sisal-Agave, Foiircroya gigantea and Ramie)," 



Rositzky, I.e. x. March 1907, pp. 210-215. -" Fibre " : Harper 



& Rositzky, I.e. pp. 219-223. ''The Fibre Industry of 



Mauritius," Acutt, in Natal Agric. Journ. x. Oct. 25th, 1907, 

 pp. 1199-1207 including " NataTs Possibilities," pp. 1207-1210. 



"The Fibre Industry," Acutt, I.e. xi. Dec. 24th, 190^, 



P2^. 1540-1542. " Mauritius Hemp," Bull. Imp. Inst. viii. 



1910, pp. 265-273. •'' In Sub-Tropical Natal : The Home of 



[Aloe] Fibre," Agric. Journ. Union of S. Africa, v. June 1913, 



pp. 817-826. •" L' Aloes Vert {Fourcroya gigantea) a Maurice," 



in L'Agronomie Coloniale, iii. Feb. 1914, pp. 52-53. " Mauritius 



Hemp from Rhodesia," Bull. Imp. Inst. xiii. 1915, pp. 21-22. 



The Fibrelndustry of Mauritius, Stockdale, Dept. Agric, Mauritius, 



Bull. No. 5, 1915, pp. 1-15. " Fique {Furcraea gigantea),'' 



T^ew Bull. 1916, pp. 169-170. " Furcraea Fibre from Southern 



Rhodesia," Bull. Imp. Inst. xv. 1917, pp. 16-17. "Mauritius 



Hemp " — from the Belgian Congo, I.e. pp. 490-491. — — "Mauri- 

 tius Hemp," in Cotton and Other Veg. Fibres, Goulding, pp. 181- 



185. 



TACCACEAE. 



Tacca, Forst. 



Tacca pinnatifida, Forst,; Fl. Trop. Afr. VII. p. 413. 



Ill, — Forster, Gen. Char. PI t. 35; Gaertner, Fruct. Sem. PI. 

 1. 1. 14; Lam. EncycL t. 232 ; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 692 (germinating 

 seeds); Schnizlein, Ic. t. 58; Bull. Soc. Nat. d'Accl. France, 

 1892, i. p. 375 {T. pinnatifida), p. 378 (T. invohicrata) ; Bot. Mag. 

 tt. 7299-7300; Gartenfl. xvii. 1868, p. 582; Tropenpfl. 1905, 

 pp. 123, 125; Bailey, Cat. Queensland PI. ff. 533-34 (var. 

 Brownii); Notizbl. Bot. Gart. BerUn, No. 45, 18th Nov. 1905, 

 App. xxii. p. 53, f. 22. 



Vernac. names, — Amara, Giginiar biri, Tera Yayu (Hausa, 

 Dalziel) ; BuguUi (Fufulde, Yola, Dahiel) ; Pia (Tahiti, Foreign 

 Office, specimen inMus. Kew). — Tacca Arrowroot, Fiji Arrowroot, 

 South-Sea Arrowroot. 



Lagos, Nupe, Katagum and Zungeru in Nigeria also known 

 from Abyssinia, Gaboon River, Congo, Mozambique, East Africa 

 and B. C. Africa. Native of Polvnesia. Tubers received at Kew 

 in 1890 from Fiji were distributed to the botanical departments 

 of Lagos, Jamaica, Trinidad, etc. 



The arrowroot or starch obtained from the root is an 



^ ■- 



important food of the Natives of the South Sea Islands, and 

 *' the Queensland aborigines " (Bailey, Cat. Queensland PI. 

 p. 648) ; tubers eaten, Nupe (Barter, Mus. Kew) ; recognised as 

 a food by the Fulani and of such pagans as occupy the lower 



