252 INDIAN HEMPS, OR THOSE SO CALLED. 
cotton, it is imported in large quantities, as 167,820 pieces, 
valued at Rs. 397,097 (but in 1849, to the value of Rs. 548,384), 
from the United Kingdom, Ceylon, East Coast of Africa, and 
Soumeeanee, but chiefly from Calcutta; also from Cutch, 
Malabar, and Canara, Aden, Sindh, Concan, and Guzerat. 
But we also find the places mentioned after Calcutta as those 
to which Gunny cloth was exported, but not in any quantity, 
except 296,757 pieces to the Concan—the whole export for 
that year amounting to 391,279 pieces, and the re-exports to 
3,403,453, valued at Rs. 468,177, therefore greatly exceeding 
the imports, and hence probably including some brought by the 
Causeway. 
Invian Hemps, OR THOSE SO CALLED, as Sunn, &c. 
In various notices of Indian fibres we frequently meet with 
the word Sunn, as indicating a particular kind of Indian fibre. 
Sometimes we find it called Indian Hemp, and we may often 
see Hemp enumerated as one of the exports from India. At 
other times we may see either the same or another fibre men- 
tioned by the name of Brown Hemp. Now these various names 
are sometimes applied to the fibre of one or of two different 
plants, or they may be employed to distinguish the fibre of 
three distinct plants, all of which are grown for their fibres, 
and have been, and might be exported from India, though 
only two of them are now usually to be found among the ex- 
ports from that country. Hence, to avoid ambiguity, it is 
necessary to notice the plants to which these several names are 
correctly applicable. 
The true Hemp (Cannabis sativa) is everywhere cultivated 
by the natives in the plains of India, not on account of its 
fibres, but for the intoxicating property of its leaves and their 
secretions. In the Himalayas, however, the fibre is separated 
for economic purposes, and was exported from India to England 
during the last war, but we believe it has not been so for 
many years. 
The fibreof the Sunn or Taag (Crotalaria juncea) is often called 
Indian Hemp, but incorrectly. It is the kind most generally 
cultivated all over India on account of its fibre, and is that 
