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ON HEMP. 



The Ejoo t 2l species of palm-tree, affords a fibre exactly re- 

 sembling coarse black horse-hair, and is used, like it, for making 

 ropes, &c. It encompasses the stem, and is seemingly bound on by 

 thicker fibres, or twigs, of which the Malays make pens for writ- 

 ing, (a) 



Marsden's Sumatra. 



(a) Dr. Roxburgh, in his Essay on Hemp and the Appendix thereto, enu- 

 merates a great number of vegetable substances, from which strong fibres may 

 be obtained ; as 



Hemp from Europe. 

 Do. grown in the Hemp-Farm at 



Rishera, by Mr. Douglas. 

 Coir. 



Ejoo. (Saugerus RumphiiJ a 



species of Sago-palm. 

 Robinia Cannabina, from plants 



nearly ripe. 

 D°. in another stage of its growth, 



plants in blossom. 

 Crotalaria Juncea. 

 Corchorus olitorius. 

 Corchorus capsalaris. 



Flax, Linum usitatissimum, of 

 Company's Farm at Rishera. 

 Agave Americana. 

 Aletris nervosa. 

 Theobroma angusta. 

 Theobroma Guazuma. 

 Hibiscus tiliaceus. 

 Hibiscus M anchot. 

 Hibiscus mutabilis. 

 Hibiscus , a new species from the 



Cape. 

 Banksia 



Sterculia Villosa. 



