DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE. 



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days it is taken out of the jars, and having heeu well washed to free it from the 

 lime, it is beaten with a wooden mallet (for about two hours) until it becomes a mass 

 of pulp. A frame of netting about 6^ feet long, and of width varying from 18 to 5 

 inches, is set afloat in water, and the pulp, having first been again mixed up in 

 water, is skillfully poured out onto the frame so as to be equally distributed over it. 

 The frame is then lifted out of the water, and a small wooden roller is ruu over the 

 surface of the pulp. By this process the water is squoezed out and the pulp pressed 

 together. The frame with the pulp on it is then set to dry in the sun. In the course 

 of some ten hours it is quite dry, and the sheet of paper can then be lifted off the 

 frame. It now only remains to smooth the surface. This is done by applying a thin 

 paste of rice flour to the sur- 

 face, and then rubbing it down 

 with a smooth stone. (Kew 

 Bull., March, 1888.) 



Stringy bark, The. Eu- 

 calyptus obliqua. 



Structural fiber (see 

 Classification of Fibers, 

 page 25). 



Sufet bariala (Ind.). 

 Sida rhomMfolia. 



Sugar cane fiber (see 

 Saccharum officinarum ) . 



Sujjado (Pers.). Hibis- 

 cus cannabinus. 



Sumauma ( B raz . ) . Erio- 

 dendron samauma. 



Sunflower fiber (see He- 

 Uanthus). 



Sunn hemp. Crotalaria 

 juncca. 



Surface fiber (see Classi- 

 fication of Fibers, page 



25). 



Swamp rose mallow. 



Hibiscus moscheutos. 



Fig. 98. — Tacca pinnatifida, young plant. 



Swet bariala (Ind.). Sida rhomMfolia. 



Sword rush (see Lcpidosperma). 



Taag (Ind.). Crotalaria juncea. 



Tabago silk grass (Trin.). Furcrcea cubensis. 



Tacca pinnatifida. 



A genus of perennial herbs found in tropical America, Asia, Africa, the Indian 

 Archipelago, and the Pacific Islands. T. pinnatifida is an East Indian and New Hol- 

 land species, growing in open places near the sea. (See fig. 98.) 



Structural Fiber. — The leaf stalks are employed as a plaiting material for hats, 

 and is used by the Society Islanders for bonnets. Also made into brooms. 



