660 



INDEX. 



Machinery for sugar, 140 



for cotfee, 51 



for arrowrot, 350, 348 



required for the plantain, 



324 



• ■ required for sago, 318 



Magdalena river, cacao indigenous on 



its "shores, 14 

 Magnolia fuscata, used to flavor tea, 85 

 Majoon, an opium confection, 585 

 Malabar, production of coffee in, 41 



cassia, 394 



ginger, 415 



pepper produced in, 422 



INlahva opium, 580 



Manure, a special for tobacco, 592 



Manures, suited to the colfee tree, 50 



for the nutmeg, 406 



suited for arrowroot, 347 



■ scarcely required in tropical 



countries, 6 



suited for the sugar cane, 172 



suited to maize 278 



Manioc, see Cassava 

 JVlanihot, species of, 367 



utilissima, 315 



Mansana, a land measure of 100 square 



yards, or nearly two British statute 



acres, 455 

 Manyroot, 625 



Maranta aricndlnacea, juice an anti- 

 dote to poisons, 627 



Marattia alata, 380 



Maryland tobacco, statistics of, 598, 

 600 



Mate, a name for the Paraguay tea, 133 



^Matico, 643 



Matias bark, 636 



Maund of Surat, 39^ lbs. 



an Indian weight of varable 



quantity 

 Melaleuca minor ^ 566 

 Metrosideros tomentosa, 505 

 Mesemhryanthemum nodijiorum, 494 

 Menispermum coccidus, 576 



palmatum, 638 



Megass, a name given to the dried cane 



stems, or trash used for fuel, 168 

 ]\[eleguetta pepper, 420 

 Melsen's process of sugar boiling, 203 

 Mespiliis Bengalensis, 443 

 Mendo, a wild sweet potato of North 



America, 372 

 Menomine, an Indian edible root, 372 

 Mexican thistle, 626 

 Mexico, imports of indigo from, 477 

 Metroxylon sag us, 314 

 Millet, varieties of, cultivated, 304 



the great Indian, 306 



Miller on tobacco culture, 608 I 



Mill, rude one, used in Siam for hulling 



paddy, 302 



for crushing plantain stems, 327 



Mills for cleaning rice, 286, 288 

 Minot, a Canadian grain measure about 



one-eighth less than a bushel, 251 

 Milloco, a tuberous plant, 374 

 Mint, culture of, 567 

 Mimosa bark, 504 



Mico or mijo, a vegetable butter made 



in Java, 313. 512 

 Monkey bread, 378 



pot seed oil, 512 



Morinda, species of, 443, 449 

 Morewood (Mr. E.), his exertions in 



Natal, 140 

 experiments in 



sugar culture, 187 

 Mocha, production of coffee in, 41 



cultivation of coffee in, 43 



Mother cloves, definition of, 397 

 Moussache, the fecula of the manioc, 



315 



Mountain rice, 285, 290, 296 

 Morphia, proportion in opium, 584, 585 

 Mora excelsa, 495, 

 Morinda citrifolia, 478 

 Moringa oil, 523 



species of, 523 



Musa, species of, 319 



Musquash root of the Micmacs, 371 



Mustard seed, 437 



Muscovado sugar, cost of producing, 

 189 



Mucuna pruriens, 625 



■ utilis, 304 



Muchowa oil, 511 

 Musa textilis, 321 

 Mustard oil, 510, 511 



seed, 509, 535 



Munieet, 449 

 Mwijestha, 484 



Muracnja ocellata, a narcotic, 489 

 Myrica cerifera, 494, 540 



■ macroca>-pa, 542 



Myrtus carophyllata, 284 



Fimenta, 430 



Myristica, varieties of the tree, 401 



— scbifcra, 512 



Myrobolans, 506 

 ?Jyrtle wax, 540 



JMysore, production of coffee in, 41 

 Napoota oil, 520 

 Naudea Gambir, 496 

 Namur oil, 572 



Natal Agricultural Society, its en- 

 deavours to promote sugar cultiva- 

 tion, 139 



indigo culture in, 463 



sugar culture in, 186 



