ROYAL GARDENS, KEW. 
BULLETIN 
MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION. 

No. 4.] APRIL. [1887. 

VII.—MANILA HEMP. 
(Musa textilis, Nees.) 
This is one of the most important of cordage fibres, and the whole 
supply comes from the Phillipine Islandes. The imports of Manila 
hemp to Great Britain amount to about 170,000 bales, and to the 
ited bo 
United States a ales, equal to about 50, t per 
num. The fibre is yield pin a g of the banana or plan- 
tain family known locally as rk textilis), the apparent 
stem of which is made up of ee leaf stalks, The habit of growth 
well known in the case of the common banana. The fruit of Musa 
textilis is green and hard and useless as food. 

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