310 STRENGTH OF MUDAR FIBRE. 
Coir . : . " . 224 Ib. 
Pooley Mungee (Hibiscus cannabinus) . 290,, 
Cannes: Marool (Sanseviera zeylanica) . « BIG x 
Cotton (Gossypium herbaceum) ‘ . 346 ,, 
Cutthalay nar (4gave americana). . 362,, 
Janapa (Crotalaria juncea), Sunn, hindee . 407 ,, 
Yercum (Calotropis gigantea) . . 552,, 
In considering the varied useful properties of these 
plants, we cannot but be struck with the fact, of how wonder- 
fully the Creator of all has furnished every part of the world 
with plants and animals suited to its diversified soils and 
climates. So that if the people residing near these barren 
places would make use of the natural riches within their reach, 
they have the means, by commercial interchange, of com- 
manding comforts to which they are now strangers; and we might 
then apply literally the words of the Prophet: “ The wilderness 
and the solitary place shall be glad for them; and the desert 
shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose.” (‘ Isaiah,’ xxxv, 1.) 
AroosHa Fisre or Cairracone, Callicarpa cana (Verbenacee). 
The family of plants to which the above belongs is not 
remarkable for any fibrous bark, but it is so from the great 
diversity of appearance in the plants placed in it, inasmuch as 
it includes the lowly Vervein and the lofty Teak. The latter 
conspicuous among plants for the strength and durability of 
its wood ; but its flower is small, and therefore not so much 
out of place among the Verbenacez, because it is by the structure 
of the flowers and fruit that plants are arranged. Mr. Sconce, 
when at Chittagong, had some of the fibres of a plant, which he 
says is there called Aroosha, prepared, first by cutting the stems, 
which grew three or four feet high, and then steeping. The 
inner bark was then easily stripped off. This was afterwards 
heckled, and a portion of the fibre spun into thread, but it 
does not appear of much value in a country where so many 
others abound. 
Capt. Thompson reports as follows, on the fibre: 
“The line I now send you, made from the fibre forwarded from Chitta- 
gong, broke at once, without stretching, with only 127 Ib.; only the finest 
