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Report, p. 118, enters into the question of grasscloth and its manu- 
facture from the < remp,” and gives tables. showing the extensive 
exportation, &c. 
From this ig would seem that the “hemp” experted from Kiukiang 
is really Chin a grass ; oe - pa a large portion of the Hankow 
export of * ra mp ” is the e fibr 
The Paris Exhibition Catalogue, “No. 1673, Hankow, gives Ss su. Ma. 
This probably is also China 
Hu Ma.—This is Jean Catinaan Mera immon L.) which is culti- 
vated in A Mongolia, and = m untainous parts of Hupek 
and Szechw Ía the last two pro es m personal observation 
flax would seem to be entirely ritteiited = the seeds, which are a 
common article in Chinese drug shops, and are used locally for their 
vil, utilised for cooking and lighting a. eek: 
So far as I know the Chinese do not make any linen. 
6. Tsung Ma, a local product of Hupeh, and of no commercial 
imaportance.—lIt consists of the fibres obtained io. the bark of young 
trees of Sterculia platanifolia, L. f., by steeping them in water. This 
“hemp” is used for oe cordage, and a specimen of it, pe 
by a is in tlio Muse m at Kew. 
and w on gl e coarser kinds of sain th. It is used (in 
sae ‘ : 
The Kiungchow Report for 1883, p. 361, lode that hemp was 
exported from Hainan by steamer in that to the value of 
Hk. Taels 18,000 (803 piculs in quantity), and ‘that most of this so- 
called hemp, which is in reality the fibre of the pine-apple plant, 
finds its bE to Swatow, where it is manufactured into a very fine 
grassclo 
The e expor ort called “hemp” from Hainan and Formosa is evidently, 
then, the fibre best distinguished as “ Pine-apple hem 
. Fan Pu, ie., “Savage Cloth.”—This is, -a according to the Takow 
Trade Report for "1876, p. 98, a hind of grasscloth worn by the inha- 
bitants of Formosa. It is manufactured by the aborigines, and is finer 
and more expensive than the Pine-apple cloth. It is sold in the shops 
of Taiwan-fu ; the better kind qip for as much as 8 dollars for a piece 
sufficient for making a single garment. 
tis very desirable that information should be obtained regarding the 
plant from which this dear article is procured. Particulars regarding 
its mode of preparation, &c., are also E ARN 
B.—Concer nin g the different Names of these Textiles in common Use, 
their Export from the various Treaty Po 
We find the following information embodied in various Customs 
publications :— 
1, The “hemp” exported from Tientsin is called “jute” by the 
foreign merchants there, and Ch‘ing Ma by the Chinese ; and is sallowed 
to pass at the rate of 2 mace per picul, other kinds of “ hemp” paying 
mace. No ports Cs Haden and Shanghai seem e export “jute.” 
2. “China Grass,” “Raw He “mp,” i.e, the raw fibre roughly 
ake from the mci in “ribbons.” An export i: roni a Batar pays 
an ad valorem rate of 5 
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