240 JUTE OR JEW’S MALLOW. 
laid round it, and of these, two threads so made up are twisted 
into a cord. 
A bark like some sent as that of Odina Wodier, is full of 
fibrous material. 
One of the best of the basts, and seemingly as like one of those 
from Arracan, was sent from Assam ; the strips are from six to 
seven and eight feet in length, consisting of several layers, easily 
separable, tough, flexible, and strong. They have the number 
on them of the box in which was conveyed, and in which 
were contained Pine-apple fibre; but their appearance is 
totally different. 
Several of the basts of different plants which are used. by 
the natives, and of which the names have been ascertained, 
will be mentioned under the heads of Hibiscus arboreus, 
or tiliaceus, Sterculia villosa and guttata, Bauhinia racemosa 
and scandens, Celtis orientalis, Antiaris Saccada. Capt. 
Thompson reports upon a bast rope made by the Munnee- 
poorees, and on another from Singapore. (‘ Journ. Agri-Hortic. 
Soc.,’ vili, p. 45.) 
Jure, Jew’s Mattow (Corchorus olitorius and capsularis, 
Tiliacee). 
Sans., Putta ; Beng., Pat; fibre, Jute ; cloth, tat, chotee, megila. 
The name Jute is now so familiarly known, and this fibre is 
so extensively employed in some of our manufactures, that 
one is apt to think that it must have long been established as 
an article of commerce. This is far from being the case, for we 
find no notice of it even in comparatively recent dictionaries 
of commerce; and it is not above fifteen years since that 
it has come to be much employed in the manufactures of this 
country, though it has long been so employed in India, and 
its fibres much used for making both cordage and cloth. 
Under the name of Jute, however, the fibre of two very 
distinct plants is included, though no recent accounts have 
been published by any of the present growers of Jute. Both 
plants are common in almost every part of India; the leaves 
of both are used as pot-herbs, and the stems of both yield 
fibre, and are cultivated on both these accounts; and both 
are placed by botanists in the genus Corchorus, which is so 
