Archive image from page 89 of A descriptive catalogue of useful. A descriptive catalogue of useful fiber plants of the world, including the structural and economic classifications of fibers descriptivecatal09dodg Year: 1897 82 USEFUL FIBER PLANTS OF THE WORLD. hill tribes. Specimens of this fiber were exhibited at the London Exhibition of 1851 under the name of Patwa or Mawal. A large collection of strong red ropes from it were also displayed at the Calcutta International Exhibition. Captain lluddleston in his Report on Hemp in Garhwal, in 1840, gives the following facts: •'The ' maloo' is a
Archive image from page 89 of A descriptive catalogue of useful. A descriptive catalogue of useful fiber plants of the world, including the structural and economic classifications of fibers descriptivecatal09dodg Year: 1897 82 USEFUL FIBER PLANTS OF THE WORLD. hill tribes. Specimens of this fiber were exhibited at the London Exhibition of 1851 under the name of Patwa or Mawal. A large collection of strong red ropes from it were also displayed at the Calcutta International Exhibition. Captain lluddleston in his Report on Hemp in Garhwal, in 1840, gives the following facts: •'The ' maloo' is a large creeper, 40 or 50 yards in length, and of considerable thick- ness, from the bark of which a very strong rope is made. The natives chiefly use it for tying up their cattle and sewing their straw mats with the fresh bark; it also makes capital matches for guns, and muzzles for oxen and calves.' It is 'cut gen- erally in July or August, though it may be cut all seasons, and the outer bark, being stripped off, is thrown away, the inner coating being used for ropes, as wanted, by being previously soaked in water and twisted when wet. A large creeper will produce a maund of fiber, called 'seloo.' The bark before being used is boiled and beaten with mallets, which renders it soft and pliable for being made into ropes and string for charpoys.'- (Watt.) See Spon, Enc.,Div. 3, p. 921; Die. Ec. Prod. Ind., Vol. I, p. -122; Ann. Rept. U. S. Dept. Ag., 1879, p. 528. Bauhinia splendens. Creeper. The Chain Fig. 31.—Leaves of Bauhinia vahlii are about 1£ inches in diameter, the muraro, which produces stron Native name.—Bejuco cle Cadena (Venez.). Bejuco (Cent. Am.). Grows wild in Brazil, Venezuela, and South America generally. Samples of the fibrous bark from the countries named were received from the Phil. Int. Exh., 1876. 'Found in hot, damp forests. The stems are extremely flexible and tough so that they can be used as cords, being more durable than iron nails, which in the
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