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INDEX. 



Abaca, or Manila hemp, 469 

 Achiote, 388 

 Ackawa nutmeg, 488 

 Adjoue, pressed datecake, 290 

 African ginger, 484 

 Ajonjoli, 419 



Alang-alang, a grass, 74, 79 

 Alizarine, 371 



Alkaloids of popular beverages, 3 

 Alkanet root, 391 

 Amelonado cocoa, 8 



Amendoum, a name for the ground- 

 nut, 190 

 Analysis of the candle-nut, 427 



of cocoa, 4, 6 



of cocoanut, 231 



of ground-nut meal, 407 



of plantain fruit, 457 



of rice, 315 



of sorghum, 337 



of spiked millet, 342 



of varieties of Indian com, 300 



Angolita, a name for the cocoa pod, 22 

 Annotta dye, 388 



imports into the United King- 

 dom, 390 



statistics of production in the 



French colonies, 389 

 Archenda, 391 

 Are, definition of, 250, 363 

 Areca palm, see Betelnut 

 Arnotto, 388 



Arrack from the gomuti palm, 248 



shipped from Ceylon, 246 



Arroba, definition of, 23 

 Arrowroot, culture of, 345 



culture in Bermuda, 344 



culture in India, 347 



culture in Jamaica, 344 



culture in Natal, 345 



culture in St. Kitts, 345 



culture in St. Vincent, 345 



culture in New South "Wales, 348 



culture in Queensland, 348 



culture in Pacific Isles, 349 



statistics of imports into the 



United Kingdom, 343 

 Assam Company, 91, 93 



Bandala, coarse plantain fibre, 469 

 Bajree, 341 



Ball am rice, 317 

 Bamboo palm, 291 

 Banana, 457 



uses of the sap, 464 



Bananas, dried, 462 



grown at Panama, 463 



Bancoul nuts, 427 

 Barbacues, 32 



Barre, a name for safflower seed, 418 

 Barrel of rice, definition of, 334 

 Bastard sago palm, 273 

 Bay leaves, 489 

 Bean cake and bean oil, 432 

 Bechna, a name for millet, 338 

 Beegah, definition of, 360 

 Beetroot, quantity to make 1 cwt. of 

 sugar, 217 



sugar, 128, 130, 213 



Benitche, spiked millet, 341 

 Bennie seed, 419 

 Bergamot oil, 439 

 Betelnut palm, 282 



Betelnuts, extensive use of, in the 

 East, 283 



shipments from Ceylon, 285 



Betel pepper leaf, 280 



Bihai, wild stock of the plantain, 465 



Bitter orange, 439 



Bixin, 389 



Books of palm leaves, 264 

 Bourbon coffee, 57 

 Brazilian coffee, 69, 72 



consumed in the United States, 72 



Brazil tea, 117 

 Bromclia fibre, 454 

 Broom millet, 339 



corn, 335, 339 



Bucare trees,'what, 20, 21 



Cachapo, a maize bread, 313 

 Caff'eine, 3 

 California wines, 431 

 Cally-areka, slices of boiled betel-nut, 

 283 



Camelina seed, 422 



Canada, definition of, 145 



Candied lemon-peel, 447 j 



Candlenuts, 427 



Cane sugar, 128 



Cani, definition of, 363^ 



Canna starch, 343 



