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if they do no more than rasia others to follow his Satie ca and 
treat of plants growing beyond the special districts coveret 1 by his 
investigations. The Madagascar pana yielding fibrous materials are 
enumerated in the following extract 
MALVACEÆ. 
Abutilon angulatum, Mast. A shrub, probably introduced, from 
the fibre of the bark of which the Betsiles manufacture a kind of cloth. 
Pavonia Bojeri, Baker. A shrub yielding a kind of fibre. (Cent. 
ond. 
Hibiscus tilaceus, L. (E. and N.W. Coasts.) Varo and Baro 
(Betsim , 
Adansonia madagascariensis, Baill. The Madagascar Baobab. Its 
bark affords a fibre and its fruit is edible. (W. Coast.) Bontòna ; 
Za (Sak). Two other ee only are known, viz., the Baobab or 
Monkey-bread tree of W. Africa Fer ge digitata, L.), the pulp 
of the fruit of which is edible and the bark fibrous, and the ‘Arsteatian 
Gouty Stem tree (A. i F. Muell.), the pulp of the fruit of which 
is also eaten by the aborigine 
Eriodendron anfi apia DC. The silk cotton surrounding the 
seeds is used for stuffing cushions, but is said to be dangerous to the 
eyes. (W. Reg.) Moraingy and Hamba leg This plant has a 
wide distribution in the tropics of the Old and New Worlds, and the 
silk cotton, under the name of Kapok, is exported from Java to Europe 
and Australia for stuffing mattresses. 
aie 
Dombeya, spp. Small trees whose bark suppli useful fibre 
ly used by the cai (Cent. and E. Regs., especially tora 
Hafotra. [This was, no doubt, the fibre about which a somewhat 
lengthened correspondence took ’ place with the Para Office in bog 
It was carefully studied by the Leeds and Dundee bers of Com- 
merce, age was repor rted t o be, while destitute of textile value, w 
tted for pap ing. "Te, in fact, closely resembled the bark of 
Brou Bonehia papyrifera. ] 
TILIACE. 
Grewia, macrophylla, po A shruh from which the Sihanaka 
obtain a are 45 species of Grewia known in the 
island, chiefly in the W. Rae: many of which yield a usefal fibre, 
Makolody (Antsih 
Cor Pe be olitor Mi L. One of the plants which yield the valuable 
fibre obtained from India known as Jute. (E. and W. Regs.) 
Se gree 
mbretum coccineum, Lam. A climbing shrub yielding a fibre. 
cw. yee and E. Bega). ” Salay. 
RUBIACEA. 
Danais Gerrardi, Baker, A one plant from the root of 
which the Sihanaka obtain a dye, and from whose bark they warr a 
kind of fibre. (Forests of E. Reg.) Haizantoloho io (Antai h). 
