402 
Sanseviera ar 52 
anuginosa, 52 
Roxburghiana, 52 
Zeylanica, 51, 237 
: strength of, 310 
Sara, Beng., 32 
Screw Pines, 35 
Scutching Tools, 219 
Serpah, 367 
Sesbania aculeata, 293, 294 
cochinchinensis, 293 
Shanapu, 281 
Shanapum, 270 
Shaw, 85, 237 
Shaw-nee, 239 
-phyou, 239 
Shesh, 135 
Shove, 199, 315 
Shur, 32 
Sida, 262 
abutilon, 262 
asiatica, 263 
graveolens, 263 
indica, 263 
periplocifolia, 263 
rhombifolia, 262 
rhomboidea, 262, 263 
tilizfolia, 262, 391 
Silk Cotton tree, 265 
culture, 191 
Sinamaya, 67 
Sital-pati, Hind., 60 
Snow-retting, 336 
Soil for Hemp, 333 
Flax, 149 
Spanish Broom, 270, 271 
Spartium junceum, 31, 270 
monospermum, 270 
multiflorum, 270 
Spartum of Romans, 31 
Springlein, 143 
Steepmg Flax, 200 
Hemp, 335 
Sunn, 212 
Sterculia, 265 
guttata, 266 
Ivria, 266 
villosa, 266 
Sterculiacesr, 253 
Stipa tenacissima, 31, 270 
Strand, 20 
Strength of Fibres, 268, 269 
Agave, &., 49 
Exogens, 131 
Himalayan Hemp, 331 
INDEX. 
Strength of Indian fibres, 268, 332 
for cordage, 372 
Jetee fibre, 305 
Jubbulpore Hemp, 292 
Moorva, 56 
Mudar fibre, 309 
Nettle fibres, 272 
Pine-apple, 292 
Plantain, 88 
Rheea and other fibres, 374, 375 
for cordage, 355, 364 
experiments with, 373 
Sunn, 257, 277, 289 
Urtica nivea, 347 
Strength, loss of, 22 
Stringy bark, 301 
Sunn, 8, 49, 251, 252, 270 
Sunn, Hind., 270 
Sunn cordage, comparative strengths 
of, 289 
cultivation, 273 
in Bombay, 282 
in Madras, 279 
drying, 276 
Fibre preparation, 274 
Hemp, Calcutta, 270 
paper, 384 
steeping, 212 
strength of, 257, 277, 289, 310 
value of, 287, 288 : 
Sunnee, 254: 
Surat, 366 
Sur, 32 
Sur jo kanee, 32 
Sweating of Hemp, 337 
Syrian Dogbane, 304 
Taag, 252, 254, 256, 270 
Tag, 258, 284 
Takur, 246 
Tali nunas, 40 
Tali rami, 358 
Talipat, 98 
Talipat Palm, 91 j 
‘Tanning ropes, 27 
Tar, 97 
from Teak, 26 
Tara, 98 
Tari, 96 
Tarring, effects of, 24 
Tasa, 244 
Tat, 240, 242, 243 
Tchou Ma, 345 
cultivation of, 359 
preparation of, 362 
- Tea, cultivation of, 191 
Teak Tar, 26 
