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USEFUL FIBER PLANTS OF THE WORLD. 



Macrozamia spiralis. 



This species, belonging to the Cycadacece, occurs in New South Wales, the repre- 

 sentatives of the genus being found chiefly in Australia. * Specimens of the pulu- 

 like surface fiber are preserved in the Bot. Mus. Harv. Univ. Fig. 77 i 8 a leaf of 

 M. denisonii in the Department conservatory. 



Madar fiber or Mudar (Ind.). See Galotropis gigantea. 

 Madras hemp (Ind.). See Grotalaria. 

 Maggio piccolo (It.). See Goronilla emerus. 



Maguey (Mex.). See Agave mexicana 



and A. americana; blando, A. 



salmiana; de tequila. A. ameri- 

 cana, A. wislizeni, etc. 



The term-Maguey, with and without an affix, 

 has been used as a general term to designate 

 many species of Agaves. Ignacio Blazqnez 

 enumerates 33 species and varieties of Maguey 8 

 which grow or are cultivated on the plains of 

 Apam. and names 16 species and varieties 

 growing or cultivated in the district of 

 Cholula which yield pulque. See also Agave 

 potatorum. 



Mah-line or Malaing (Burm.). See 

 Broussonetla papyri/era. 



Mahoe. Also written Mahaut. 



This name is applied to several West Indian 

 and South American species of nialvaceous 

 plants ; sometimes written Mahaut. The species 

 named in this work are: bord Ja-mer, Hib- 

 iscus tiliaceus; cousin , Triumfetta semi- 



triloba; blue or mountain , Hibiscus elatus; 



: red , Sterculia caribcea; Congo , Jfibis- 





— , Thespesia pop uln ea; 

 arboreus, etc. ; 



Fig. 77. — A leaf of Macrozamia 

 denisonii. 



cus dypeatus; seaside 



wild , Malvaviscus 



pincet, Fuuifera utilis, sec Lagetta. "Mahoe is 

 a collective name for the bast fibers of Paritium, 

 Ochroma, Thespesia, Hibiscus, etc. The word is 

 the same as Majagua used in Venezuela, Colom- 

 bia, and other countries." (l>r. Ernst. 



The name Mahoe is applied in Trinidad 



j ipeiba, 

 (J. H 



indiscriminately to the genera Paritium, Thespesia, Daphnopsis. Ochroma, 

 HeUocarpus, and many others producing bast tissue or fibrous barks. 

 Hart.) 



Maholtine (Trin.). AhuiiJon periplocifolium (now Wissadula). 



Mahauli and Marvil (Ind.). See Bauhinia racemosa. 



Maicha (Pern). See Mamillaria. 



Maidenhair fern (see Adiantum). 



Mayo or Maioh (Burm.). Galotropis gigantea. 



