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so numerous are they that our limits would be insufficient 

 for their description. In India especially there are some 

 of considerable importance ; and as they have been made 

 known to us by the indefatigable exertions of Dr. Royle, 

 who collected and exhibited them in his magnificent series 

 of raw produce at the Great Industrial Exhibition,, it will 

 not be out of place to give the names of those exhibited, of 

 which we know the producing plants. 



Sunnee. — Fibre of the stems of Hibiscus cannaUnus 

 (Nat. Ord. Malvacece), called Palungeo, from Coimbatore. 

 This is also called Brown Indian Hemp, Ambari, and Sun : 

 this last name is more generally applied to another material. 



String and ropes of the fibre of Bauhinia racemosa 

 (Nat. Ord. Leguminosce) , called Putwa, from Bhagulpore. 



Jetee or Tongoose fibre, from the stems of Asclejoias 

 tenacissima (Nat. Ord. Asclepiadacete) , from Madras. 



Yercum fibres, from the bark of Calotrojpis gigantea (Nat. 

 Ord. Leguminosas) . 



Fibre from the stalks of Parkinsonia aculeata (Nat. 

 Ord. Leguminosa). 



Pulas cordage, from fibres of the inner bark of Bulea 

 frondosa, a fine tree (Nat. Ord. Legvminosa) . 



Palmyra fibres, from the leaves of Borassus flabeltiformh 



