Archive image from page 241 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 234 USEFUL FIBER PLANTS OF THE WOKLD. Malvaviscus arboreus. Wild Maiioe. A genus of uialvaceous shrubs native ot' tropical America and Mexico. Said to be found in Mauritius. Fiber.—A coarse bast, labeled Civil, secured from the Mexican exhibit, W. ('. E., 1n;»:>. was referred by Dr. Ernst to tbis species. Employed for native uses. Fiber 6 to 7 feet in length. Savorgnan
Archive image from page 241 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 234 USEFUL FIBER PLANTS OF THE WOKLD. Malvaviscus arboreus. Wild Maiioe. A genus of uialvaceous shrubs native ot' tropical America and Mexico. Said to be found in Mauritius. Fiber.—A coarse bast, labeled Civil, secured from the Mexican exhibit, W. ('. E., 1n;»:>. was referred by Dr. Ernst to tbis species. Employed for native uses. Fiber 6 to 7 feet in length. Savorgnan states that it is an excellent textile material. Specimen of the liber, Herb. Col. X. Y. Mamaki (Hawaii). See Pipturus. Mamillaria senilis. A genus of Cactacece for the most part con line Fir,. 78.—The Bussi'i palm, Manicaria eaccifera. Mandgay (Bomb.). See Bambusa a run Mandua (Ind.). Elexisine coracana. d to Mexico. M. senilis is also found in Tern, known as Maicha. Dorca states that it produces a surface fiber, a kind of yellowish wool. The revised name of this genus is Cactus. The genus is, in most instances, readily distinguished from its allies by the fleshy stem, of which the plants solely consist, being entirely covered with tubercles of a teat-like form, giving rise to the generic name, from mamilla, a lit- tle teat. These are disposed in a series of spirals, each teat being furnished at the top with a tuft of radiating spines proceeding from a kind of cushion. is a very pretty little spe< ies. growing in crowded tufts usually of a hemi- spherical shape. The mamillae, which are about the size of grains of wheat, have little tufts of white- hairs between them and bear bun- dles of spines, consisting of from four to six straight stilt inner ones and from twelve to twenty outer ones like white hairs. (A. smith.) M. coronaria, reaching 5 feet in height, and M. clava, both Mexican species, produce a '-white wool.' The filter is more curious tha
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