PRINCIPAL PLANTS OF ECONOMIC VALUE. 191 



Common Name. 



Mastic Tree 

 Opopanax 

 Storax,orStyrax 

 Sweet Gum 

 Tragacanth 

 Turpentine Tree 



Botanical Name. 



Native Country. 



Pistacia lentiscus 



Mediterranean 



Opopanax Chironiutn 



South Europe 



Styrax officinale 



Mediterranean 



Liqnidambar Styraciflna 



North America 



Astragalus, various species 



South Europe and Asia 



Pistacia Terebinthus 



Asia and North Africa 



6. FIBRE PLANTS USED IN THE MANUFACTURE 

 OF CLOTHING, CORDAGE, AND PAPER. 



Areng, or Go- 

 muti Palm 



Bowstring 

 Hemp 



Bulrush 



Cape Wedding- 

 Flower 



Club, or Palm 

 Lily 



Coast Rush 

 Cotton 



Cuba Bast 

 Danubian, or 



Bamboo Reed 

 Dragon Tree 

 Esparto - Grass, 



or Atocha 

 Flame Tree 



Flax (common) 



Flax (New Zea- 

 land) 



Galingale Rush 



Arenga Sacchifera 



Sansevieras zeylanica and 



Roxburghiana 

 Typha angustifolia 

 Dombeya natalensis 



Cordyline [Draccena), various 

 species 



yuncus maritunus 

 Gossypium, various species 



Paritium elahtm 

 Arundo Donax 



Draccena Draco 



Stipa (Macrochloa) tena- 



cissima 

 Steradia {Brachychiton) 



acerifolium 

 Linum usitatissimum 



Phormium tenax 



Cyperus lucidus, and other 

 species 



Malayan Archipelago 

 India and Ceylon 



All over the World 



Natal 



India, China, South Sea 

 Islands,New Zealand, 

 Australia, etc. 



All temperate climes 



South America, East and 

 West Indies 



West Indies 



South Europe 



Canary Islands 

 Spain and Portugal 



New South Wales and 

 Queensland 



Supposed to have origin- 

 ated in the East 



New Zealand 



Throughout the World 



