ROYAL GARDENS, KEW. 

BULLETIN 
MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION. 

No. 5.] MAY. [1887. 

X.—BOWSTRING HEMP. 
This at present is not an article in commercial use ; but attention 
may well be directed to the capabilities o of numerous species of 
l 
evieria 
of which there are 10 or 12 species, are very abundant on both the 
-east and west coasts of tropical Africa, which, indeed, may be looked 
upon as the head-quarters of the genus. One well-known species (S. 
zeylanica) is indigenous to Ceylon; and this and others are found 
along the Bay of Bengal, extending thence to Java and to the coasts 
of China. The fea of these plants are more or less succulent and 


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