298 OTHER LEGUMINOUS FIBRES. 
PARKINSONIA ACULEATA.—Though this is an American plant, 
it may, like the Agave, be enumerated among Indian products, 
because it may now be met with as one of the most common 
trees in villages and cantonments, flourishing with less care 
than any other. Some of its fibre, of a beautiful white colour, 
was sent to the Exhibition of 1851, as a material for paper- 
making, and which could probably be afforded at a cheap rate, 
from the cuttings of the shoots of this plant. It, however, 
has been considered in this country as wanting in strength. It 
might, nevertheless, be found useful in mixing with other 
fibrous substances, and beaten up into half-stuff. 
Boxuara Crover.—A plant under this name has attracted 
some notice in Ireland, on account of its fibre. It is the 
Melilotus arborea, and is nearly allied to M. leucantha, and there- 
fore not a true Clover. It grows so freely as to yield five or 
six cuttings in the season of green herbage, from which, it is 
said, a considerable proportion of strong fibre may be obtained ; 
but the Committee of the Irish Flax Society state, that the 
trials made in steeping this plant were unsuccessful with 
them. 
EXPORTS OF SUNN AND OTHER HEMP-LIKE FIBRES, ETC., 
FROM INDIA. 
In the beginning of this work, when referring to the great 
increase which had taken place in the commerce of Indian 
fibres, a tabular statement was given (p. 9) of the exports of 
fibrous substances from the three Presidencies. In subsequent 
pages, the detailed exports of Coir and of Jute have been sepa- 
rately given, and under the head of Ambaree or Hibiscus fibre, 
it was stated that the detailed exports of this fibre would be 
given along with those of Sunn, because the two are not dis- 
tinguished in the Reports of the Exports from India or in the 
Imports into this country. Indeed, in the latter, Jute has not 
hitherto been separated from the others; though it will be so 
in future reports. In the following table, therefore, the details 
of the Exports of Indian substitutes for Hemp are given, con- 
