199, 
in Bombay, to increase to a very arpreiable extent the return on the 
shipment of Aloe fibre from the Presiden 
6. Mr. Thiselton-Dyer has little aoe that the facts herein stated 
will prove of considerable interest to the Government of India, and they 
deserve to be widely known amongst those concerned in the Bombay 
Aloe fibre industry. 
I am, &c. 
J. A. Godley, Esq., C.B. (Signed) D. MORRIS. 
2 [Enclosure.] 
Messrs. IDE AND CHRISTIE to ROYAL GARDENS, KEW. 
72, Mark Lane, E.C., 
DEAR on February 6, 1890. 
za somewhat ce iim continued "exposure to the rai and were i 
three times as long would be worth 30/. per ton to-day in London; if 
twice as long 27/.; and, as it is, it may be valued at 25/. 
The ordinary “ Bonta Aloe” of commerce presents a very different 
appearance to your specimen, as, perhaps, samples in your Museum may 
show. Its value to day is good 12/., common 5l. per ton. 
| Yours, &e. 
| D. Morris, Esq., M.A., F.L.S. (Signed) IDE AND CHRISTIR. 
LXI—BOMBAY ALOE FIBRE.—(continued.) 
(Agave vivipara, L.) 
[K. B., 1892, p. 283.] 
In the previous article, an account is given of a fibre 
known in commerce as Bombay Aloe Fibre prepare from Agave 
vivipara, It appears that there is a varieguted form of this plant in 
In pred aa recently through the kindness of a G. Marshall Woodrow, 
o 
jostinicns were obtained for the Kew collections. In ‘forwarding the 
Specimens Mr. Woodrow supplied the following interesting informa- 
tion :— 
Mr. G. MARSHALL WOODROW to ROYAL GARDENS, KEW. 
College of Science, Poona, 
DEAR Sir, May 19, 1892. 
IN reply to your letter of the 23rd April, I have the pleasure of 
intimating despatch by pee, post of a box containing nine “Agave 
vivipara variegata plants, with a mature leaf, and a branch with 
ety 
e two distinct forms of Aga ve vivipara, one has leaves 
sic 43 feet in length by 2} inches in breadth at the broadest 
which is near the centre; the other attains 2 s in length, but 
is gpnoraliy fo much shorter, it is of the same breadth as the other moo 
but somewhat thicker. The flowers are the aoa in bot 
Marathee name is Guial. 
