NEOGLAZIOVIA VARIEGATA . CAROA . 
This fiber plant of probable great commercial worth is 
described as having half round, light green, white banded, 
snakelike leaves. It belongs to the pineapple family, and 
produces an excellent fiber, and flourishes "regardless of 
droughts." It is said that in six months after being stripped 
of its fiber, it will produce a full sized crop, from 6 to 
8 feet in length. The fiber for cordage and the wastage 
for paper, making promise to compare very favorably with the 
other fibres used for these purposes. The illustration is 
used by the ' courtesy erf the Pan American Union, in whose 
Bulletin for January 1910, appeared the first popular des- 
cription, quoted above. 
(Issued April I, 1912. ) 
