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The following list of those met with in the Peninsula includes all 
the plants which I can find recorded to have been anywhere used or 
experimented with as fibre plants, to which I have added a few 
which are locally used for tying or binding in any way. 
Abutilon indicum , L. (. Malvaceae ). 
Hebiscus sabdariffa, L. ,, 
H. abelmoschus „ 
H. esculentus 
H. surattensis. 
Urena lobata. 
Abromo ( u gusto, Sterculiacece. 
Nepenthes , spp. 
' Triumfetta rhomboidea , ( Tilia- 
cece). 
Abrus precatorius , (Legummosoe) . 
P oedema fostida , L. ( Rubiaceoe ). 
Pachyrhizus angulatus [Le gum- 
mo ce) , 
Gleichenia linearis (Pern). 
Of woody climbers of which the bark has to be stripped off be- 
fore treatment we have wild or cultivated 
Anodeudron paniculata. 
Cryptostegia grandiflora. 
Artdbotrys spp. 
Gnetum spp. 
Of trees or shrubs of which the bark requires to be stripped. 
Ficus chartacea. Cordia myxa. 
A Ichor ne a villosa. Hibiscus tiliaceus. 
Anona muricata. H. elatus, Cuba bast. 
A rtocarpus kunstleri, Terap. H. macrophylla y Tutok. 
A. incisa , Bread fruit. H . rosa sinensis. 
Bixa arnoto, L. Melochia arborea. 
Commersonia echinata. Thespesia populnea. 
M acaranga javanica. Wikstroemia indica. 
Abutilon Indicum , L. ( Malvaceae ). 
A small shrubby plant about 6 feet tall or less, with orange yellow 
flowers usually to be found in waste ground; native names, Kambong 
Lobo, Bunga Kisar and Malbar. 
The fibre is said to be good and suitable for cordage. The allied 
species, A, Avicennae , is said to have a fibre superior to Indian jute 
and finer than Manilla hemp, and attempts were made to cultivate 
it in America; but though it was found to give so valuable a fibre it 
seems to have been abandoned for lack of a suitable fibre machine. 
The fibre is known as Indian mallow or American or Chinese jute 
as it is largely made in China also. The fibre seems to be prepared 
usually by simple retling and washing in water. Abutilon indicum , 
could be’ treated in this way also. It is a rapid grower and of 
short life. The plant, however, is not very abundant here and 
does not seem to establish itself very well. 
Hibiscus sabdariffa (Malvaceae). 
The Rosella is not rarely cultivated in villages and especially by 
Tamils, but much more seldom to be met with than it should be, or 
indeed is in India and Australia for its fleshy acid calyces which are 
used for pies, jellies, etc. It is raised from seed and grows here 
