. Plants and their uses; an introduction to botany . (A) and (. capsulnns (D), LindenFamily, Tiliaceir). A, fioworiny; and fruitiiiK U>\) of pot-herb , flowering top of podded jute. (Sehuniaiui.)—Annuals al)out 2-3m. tall; leaves light green; flowers whitish yellow; fruit dry, elongatedin pot-herb jute, globular in the other species. Native home, India. Fig. 218, II.—Podded .Jute. Fruit. (Baillon.) parts with a knife. Both a coarse and a tine fiber arethus obtained, the latter coming from near the edge of thestalk. The former is nmch stronger even than the true hemp,an
. Plants and their uses; an introduction to botany . (A) and (. capsulnns (D), LindenFamily, Tiliaceir). A, fioworiny; and fruitiiiK U>\) of pot-herb , flowering top of podded jute. (Sehuniaiui.)—Annuals al)out 2-3m. tall; leaves light green; flowers whitish yellow; fruit dry, elongatedin pot-herb jute, globular in the other species. Native home, India. Fig. 218, II.—Podded .Jute. Fruit. (Baillon.) parts with a knife. Both a coarse and a tine fiber arethus obtained, the latter coming from near the edge of thestalk. The former is nmch stronger even than the true hemp,and makes the best of cordage. It is highly valued also formats, bagging, and sail-cloth, while from old ropes of it ismade manila paper. Manila bagging serves, for stiffening])laster of Paris in making the building material known asstaff which is used for the ornamentation of MIXED FIBERS 233 temporary structures such as those of the Columbian andPan-American Expositions. The fine fiber is woven by thenatives into beautiful Fig. 219.—Manila Hemp Plant {Mutid textilis. Banana Family, Musacea).Plant, flowers, and fruit. (Kew Bulletin.)—A tree-like perennial herbfrom the underground stem of which arise huge leaves whose over-lapping stalks make a trunk 6 m. or more in height, and support notonly the immense leaf-blades but the hea^•y cluster of flowers andfruit; leaves pale beneath; flowers inconspicuous, covered bj reddishbracts; fruit green, filled with numerous seeds. Native home, Philip-pine Islands. The leaves of the pineapple (Fig. Ill) yield a similar fiberof extraordinary strength and fineness. From the finest of 234 INDUSTRIAL PLANTS this is made the celebrated piha or pineapple-cloth of thePhilippines—said to be the most delicate and perhaps themost costlv of vegetable textiles.
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