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New list of stuff to add from "The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom" by P. L. Simmonds

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A

 * 1) Albrus precatorius_, 643
 * 2) Acacia bark, 493
 * 3) Catechu_, 495, 577
 * 4) dealbata_, 505
 * 5) Acer saccharinum_, 205
 * 6) Acre, coffee trees to the, 69
 * 7) Achira plant, 355
 * 8) Achote, a name for arnotto, 447
 * 9) Acrocomia fusiformis_, 519
 * 10) Adeps Myristica_, 402
 * 11) Adme cyperus_, 626
 * 12) Adenanthera Pavonina_, 378
 * 13) Adansonia digitata_, 378
 * 14) African arrowroot, 353
 * 15) lard, 525
 * 16) purple millet, 307
 * 17) Africa, pepper grown in, 422
 * 18) tobacco culture in, 615
 * 19) Agar-Agar moss, 378, 379
 * 20) Agi or Guinea pepper, 429
 * 21) Agave Americana--a substitute for soap, 574
 * 22) Agaiti oil, 520
 * 23) Agricultural wealth of tropical regions, 2
 * 24) Aipi, 376
 * 25) Akyab, exports of rice from, 297
 * 26) Aleurites triloba_, 521, 538
 * 27) Alexandrian senna, 648
 * 28) Algaroba beans, 313
 * 29) bark, 503
 * 30) Algiers, tobacco culture in, 615
 * 31) Alizaine, 478
 * 32) Alkanet root, 442
 * 33) Allspice, the common name for pimento, 430
 * 34) Almond oil, 510, 533
 * 35) Aloes, statistics of exports from the Cape, 632
 * 36) varieties of, 628
 * 37) Alpinia Galanga_, 419
 * 38) Cardamomum_, 419
 * 39) racemosa_, 414
 * 40) Alstræmeria pallida_, 330
 * 41) Althea rosea_, 442
 * 42) Amaranthus gangiticus_, 434
 * 43) American arrowroot, 352
 * 44) flour, countries to which, shipped, 223
 * 45) Americans consume most coffee, 40
 * 46) Amboyna wood, 439
 * 47) Amomum_, species of, 419
 * 48) Zingiber_, 414
 * 49) Anacardium occidentale_, 495, 521
 * 50) Analyses, various, of tobacco, 592-93
 * 51) Analysis of the coffee plant, 49
 * 52) ashes of the coffee tree, 43
 * 53) of catechu, 579
 * 54) of Havana tobacco, 591, 615
 * 55) of other varieties, 615
 * 56) of oil cake, 546
 * 57) of soils, 617
 * 58) of soils, not so requisite abroad, 7
 * 59) of the sugar cane, by Dr. Evans, 154
 * 60) of sugar soils in the East, 172
 * 61) Anethum graveolens_, 376
 * 62) Sowa_, seeds of, 434
 * 63) Angola weed, 486
 * 64) Aniseed, 437
 * 65) Antigua arrowroot, statistics of, 353
 * 66) cost of cultivating sugar, 189
 * 67) Ants, remedy for, 181
 * 68) Anchusa tinctoria_, 442
 * 69) Andropogon, species of, 572
 * 70) Anileria_, a manufactory for indigo, 460
 * 71) Apricot oil, 511, 536
 * 72) Apios, 355, 371
 * 73) Aquilaria, species of, 439
 * 74) Arghel leaves, 647
 * 75) Arachis hypogoea_, 513
 * 76) Arenga saccharifera_, the _gomutus saccharifera_ of Rumphius, 136, 314
 * 77) Areometer, an instrument for testing oil, 532
 * 78) Arbor alba_, 566
 * 79) Areca nuts, value of the exports from Ceylon, 579
 * 80) palm, 577
 * 81) Argemone Mexicana_, 511, 521, 626
 * 82) Arnotto, 447
 * 83) Arpent, a French land measure, about one-seventh less than an acre, 251
 * 84) Arracan, exports of rice from, 297
 * 85) Arracacha esculenta_, 355, 375
 * 86) Arrack, 556
 * 87) used to flavor tobacco, 621
 * 88) Arroba, a Spanish weight of 25 lbs., the fourth part of a quintal.
 * 89) Arrowroot, Benzon's analysis of, 348
 * 90) culture and commerce of, 345
 * 91) made from the Palmyra shoots, 376
 * 92) starch of, 331, 334-35, 337
 * 93) Arsenic for steeping grain, poisonous effects from, 233
 * 94) Artocarpus incisa_, 318, 330
 * 95) Arum colocasia_, 364
 * 96) esculentum_, 364
 * 97) Rumphii_, 365
 * 98) Asafoetida, 633
 * 99) Asclepias curassavica_, 625
 * 100) gigantea_, 494
 * 101) tingens_, 442
 * 102) Assamee, an Indian name for the ryot or cultivator, 467
 * 103) Assam, introduction of tea culture, 94
 * 104) tea sales, 98
 * 105) Company, origin of, 98
 * 106) manufacture of tea in, 126
 * 107) Assaroo, rain sowing, 468
 * 108) Astoria theiformis_, used as tea at Santa Fe, 80
 * 109) Attap leaf for thatching, 405, 559
 * 110) Attar of roses, 570
 * 111) Aucklandia, 438
 * 112) Auracaria Bidwillii_, 377
 * 113) Australia, consumption of tea in, 87, 88
 * 114) sugar cultivation recommended, 139
 * 115) Austria production of beet-root sugar in, 197, 200
 * 116) Avicenna tomentosa_, 444
 * 117) Avocado seed yields a dye stuff, 444
 * 118) Awl tree, 443

B

 * 1) Babool wood, 493
 * 2) Bahu, a land measure in Java, equal to 71 acres.
 * 3) Bajree, the Indian name for Holcus Spicatus_, 306
 * 4) Bales of Cuba tobacco, size of, 613
 * 5) Balfour (Prof.) on the starch in potatoes, 330
 * 6) Ball's account of the cultivation, &c., of tea, 103
 * 7) Banana, starch in, 331
 * 8) Baptista tinctoria_, 453
 * 9) Barbacue, a platform for coffee drying, 69
 * 10) Baphia nitida_, 447
 * 11) Barbados arrowroot, 337, 353
 * 12) Barcelona, exports of cacao from, 13
 * 13) Bark of the larch, its utility, 376
 * 14) Barks for tanning, 492
 * 15) Barley, history and consumption of, 255
 * 16) Barrel of rice weighs 600 lbs. net, 291
 * 17) Barus camphor, 634
 * 18) Barwood, 445, 447
 * 19) Basket of rice, a measure equal to 55½ lbs., English,
 * 20) Bassia butyracea_, 136, 512
 * 21) Batatas edulis_, 330, 331, 357
 * 22) Bauhinia variegata_, 492
 * 23) Bayley (Mr.), on consumption of tea in the manufacturing districts
 * 24) Bay rush or tapioca, 376
 * 25) Beans, analysis of, 264
 * 26) Bearing time of different plants, 9
 * 27) Beck (Prof.) on various wheats, 222
 * 28) Beet root sugar produced on the Continent, 144
 * 29) Beet, varieties of the root, 191
 * 30) Belgians, large consumers of coffee, 40
 * 31) Belgium, production of beet root sugar in, 200
 * 32) Benares, production of indigo in, 475
 * 33) Ben, oil of, 523
 * 34) Bencoolen, pepper grown in, 423
 * 35) Bengal, cost of cultivating sugar in, 189
 * 36) Bennet on Ceylon, 316
 * 37) Bennett (Dr.), description of gambier, 500
 * 38) Berar, edible root of, 377
 * 39) Berberry, a dye stuff, 442
 * 40) Berbice, exports of coffee from, 73
 * 41) Bergamot, essence of, 566
 * 42) Berger's process of making rice starch, 344
 * 43) Bermuda arrowroot, statistics of, 353
 * 44) Berry wax, 540
 * 45) Betel leaf, 577
 * 46) Bhoe Moong, the Indian name for the ground nut, 515
 * 47) Bhull rice lands, 293
 * 48) Biggah, distinction between this land measure, 471
 * 49) Bignonia Chica_, 444
 * 50) Bihai, 320
 * 51) Bitter cassava, 331
 * 52) Bixa orellana_, 447
 * 53) Black ginger, 415
 * 54) Blood tree, 625
 * 55) Bollman (Prof.), on the potato rot, 359
 * 56) Bolitus used as food, 377
 * 57) Bonynge (Mr. F.) promotes tea culture in America, 97
 * 58) Borassus gomutus_, 315
 * 59) Borneo, pepper produced in, 422
 * 60) Bourbon, cacao grown in, 36
 * 61) Bousa, an African beer, 308
 * 62) Boussingault's analysis of wheat, 244
 * 63) Boyams, food plant, 377
 * 64) Bran, analysis of, 231
 * 65) Brassica oleracea_, oil from the seed, 539
 * 66) Brazilian arrowroot, 330, 367, 369
 * 67) Brazil, exports of coffee to America, 63
 * 68) Bread fruit, 318, 330
 * 69) Brick tea of Thibet, 92
 * 70) British Guiana, coffee produced in, 73
 * 71) Brood-boon, 319
 * 72) Bromelia Pinguin, fruit of, used for soap, 574
 * 73) Broom corn, 307, 308
 * 74) Brosimum alicastrum_, edible nuts of, 319
 * 75) Broussonitia tinctoria_, 485
 * 76) Brown bread, its wholesomeness, 230
 * 77) Bruce, (Mr. C.A.) on the manufacture of tea in Assam, 126
 * 78) Buchanania latifolia_, 494, 521
 * 79) Buckwheat, average weight of crop in New Brunswick, 253
 * 80) Buck yam, 333, 335, 362
 * 81) Bullhoof, yields a narcotic, 589
 * 82) Bunbury (Mr.) on Cape aloes, 632
 * 83) Butch wood, used to keep off ants, 181
 * 84) Butea frondosa_, 507
 * 85) Butter of cacao, 11, 12

C

 * 1) Cabacinha_, the Portuguese name for a purgative plant, 626
 * 2) Caballine aloes, 630
 * 3) Cacao beans or seeds, analysis of, 12
 * 4) Cacomite, a species of Tigridia, 374
 * 5) Cacoon, oil from, 511
 * 6) Cadet's analysis of barks, 495
 * 7) Cæsalpinia_, species of, 446
 * 8) Cæsalpinia Coriari_, 493
 * 9) Caffeine, analysis of, 80
 * 10) Cajeput oil, 566
 * 11) Caladium costatium_, 377
 * 12) Calambak wood, 439
 * 13) Calandra oryza_, 279
 * 14) Calcutta, exports of castor oil, 545
 * 15) Calidad, the best kind of Cuba tobacco, 613
 * 16) California, tea proposed to be cultivated in, 97
 * 17) Callistemon ellipticum_, 505
 * 18) Calophyllum Inophyllum_, 513
 * 19) Calumba plant, 638
 * 20) Calumbin, 638
 * 21) Calystegia sepium_, 642
 * 22) Camassia esculenta_, 376
 * 23) Camata, a variety of valonia, 508
 * 24) Camelina sativa_, 509, 511, 564
 * 25) Camotes, a Spanish name for the sweet potato, 375
 * 26) Camæladia ilicifolia_, 628
 * 27) Campbell (Dr. A.), on the tea culture at Darjeeling, 116
 * 28) Camphor, on the collection of, 633
 * 29) Cannabis indica_, 643
 * 30) Camwood, 447
 * 31) Canada, production of maple sugar in, 206
 * 32) Canadian yellow root, 626
 * 33) Canary Isles, millet exported from, 306
 * 34) Candleberry myrtle, 540
 * 35) Candlewood, 539
 * 36) Candles made of cinnamon suet, 390
 * 37) Candle tree, 521, 538
 * 38) Cane sugar, composition of, 136, 155, 157
 * 39) Canella alba_, 396
 * 40) Canna, species of, 355
 * 41) Canothus Americanus_, used as tea, 80
 * 42) Caoutchouc, 539
 * 43) Capa, a term in Cuba for good tobacco, 614
 * 44) Cape aloes, manufacture of, 631
 * 45) Capsicum, 428
 * 46) Carapa_, species yielding oil, 518
 * 47) Caracas, large produce of cacao in, 13
 * 48) Caraveru, a red pigment, 444
 * 49) Carraway seed oil, 437, 566
 * 50) Cardomoms, bastard, 419
 * 51) Carduus Virginianus_, 376
 * 52) Carob bean, 312, 313
 * 53) Carolina rice, shipments of, 285
 * 54) Carrageen, 379
 * 55) Carrots, average weight per bushel in New Brunswick, 253
 * 56) Carthamus tinctoria_, 450
 * 57) Caruto, a name for the Lana dye, 444
 * 58) Carver's treatise on tobacco culture, 607
 * 59) Carum carui_, 566
 * 60) Caryophyllus aromaticus_, 397
 * 61) Caryota urens_, 314
 * 62) Cascarilla bark, 396
 * 63) Cashew bark, 495
 * 64) Cassareep, an antiseptic, 339, 343, 369
 * 65) Cassava cakes, 342
 * 66) Cassia, a rival to cinnamon, 391
 * 67) Castor oil, 510, 511, 527, 536, 542, 563
 * 68) Catechu or Cutch, 579
 * 69) Cattle, consumption of Indian corn by, 271
 * 70) Catty, a Chinese weight, 400
 * 71) Cayenne, nutmeg introduced, 412
 * 72) Celastrus paniculatus_, 521
 * 73) Celebes, coffee grown in, 62
 * 74) Centrifugal machine for sugar, 140
 * 75) Cephælis Ipecacuanhæ_, 641
 * 76) Ceratonia siliqua_, 312, 313
 * 77) Cereal grasses, 216
 * 78) Ceroxyion andicola_, 541
 * 79) Cersium virginianum_, 376
 * 80) Cetraria islandica_, 343, 379
 * 81) Ceylon arrowroot, 353
 * 82) Ceylon, exports of castor oil from, 545
 * 83) Chay root, 449, 478
 * 84) Chamarops Palmetto_, 495
 * 85) Chandu, the prepared extract of the opium, 585
 * 86) Chenopodium quinon_, 310
 * 87) Cherrots, Manilla, 619
 * 88) Chesnuts, consumed in France, 361
 * 89) Chest of opium, about 140 lbs., 58
 * 90) Chick pea, 312
 * 91) Chicory, extensive consumption of, 37
 * 92) Chillies, growth of, 428
 * 93) Chimo, powdered potatoes, 361
 * 94) China, population of, 86
 * 95) Chinese arrowroot, 352
 * 96) Chironia sapinda_, 521
 * 97) Chloranthus_, flowers used to flavor tea, 85
 * 98) Chocolate nuts, 11
 * 99) Christison (Prof.), analysis of gamboge, 640
 * 100) Chiretta, 641
 * 101) Chrysoptranic acid, 488
 * 102) Cibotium Billardieri_, 380
 * 103) Cigars, consumption of, 596
 * 104) Cinchona bark, 635
 * 105) Cinnamon, 382
 * 106) Citronella oil, 565, 573
 * 107) Clagett and Co.'s (Messrs.) tobacco circulars, 601
 * 108) Clarifying cane juice, 155
 * 109) Clark, (Mr.) on a new variety of tobacco, 613
 * 110) Classification and arrangement adopted in the work, 5
 * 111) Claytonia acutiflora_, 371
 * 112) Clerihew's coffee apparatus, 52
 * 113) Climate suited for various plants, 9
 * 114) Clove bark, 383
 * 115) Cloves, 397
 * 116) Cobres a first quality of indigo, 456
 * 117) Coca plant, 576
 * 118) Cocculus indicus_, 576
 * 119) Cochin China, coco nut oil exported from, 556
 * 120) Cochineal, value of the dye stuff, 440
 * 121) Cocoa, see Cacao, 9
 * 122) Cocos nucifera_, 547
 * 123) Cocum oil, 521
 * 124) Coffee, adulteration of, and substitutes for, 37
 * 125) Coimbatore, culture of tobacco in, 618.
 * 126) Coir, Coco nut, 551, 552, 555, 556.
 * 127) Colman (Mr.), on grain production, 219
 * 128) Colocasia_, varieties of cultivated, 364
 * 129) Colocynth_, 638
 * 130) Colombo root, 638
 * 131) Coloring principles of the lichens, 487
 * 132) Colza oil, 510, 513, 539
 * 133) Conium Arracacha_, 375
 * 134) Connecticut, culture of tobacco in, 606
 * 135) Consumption of rhubarb, 645
 * 136) Convolvulus Jalapa_, 641
 * 137) Conquin tay, plantain meal, 324
 * 138) Constantinople opium, 585
 * 139) Consumption of arrowroot, 354
 * 140) Convolvulus batatas_, 333, 334, 356
 * 141) Coolies employed in Mauritius, 150
 * 142) Copey, a Cuba dye wood, 485
 * 143) Copperah, 536, 549, 556, 560, 661
 * 144) Corakan flour, 304
 * 145) Coriander seed, 437
 * 146) Coriaria myrtifolia_, 493
 * 147) Cork tree bark, 504
 * 148) Corn, the common name for maize in America, 270
 * 149) Cortes, a description of indigo, 456
 * 150) Corypha umbraculifera_, 316
 * 151) Costus Arabicus_, 438
 * 152) Costa Rica, production of coffee in, 41, 64
 * 153) Cotton, information respecting, 9
 * 154) Courida bark, 495
 * 155) Cow-itch, 625
 * 156) Crane potato, 372
 * 157) Crawfurd (Mr. J.), estimate of pepper produce, 422
 * 158) Croix lachryma_, 304
 * 159) Crop hogshead of tobacco, weight of, 605
 * 160) Croton Cascarilla_, 396
 * 161) Cuba, coffee plantations in, 77
 * 162) Cubebs, medicinal, 639
 * 163) Cucumber seed oil, 512
 * 164) Cucumis Colocynthus_, 638
 * 165) Cudbear, imports of, 486
 * 166) Culilaban bark, 383
 * 167) Curcuma longa_, 419
 * 168) Curry stuff, imports into Ceylon, 434
 * 169) Cush, an Indian name for millet, 306
 * 170) Cutch, the Indian name for catechu, or gambier, 600
 * 171) Cuyupa, an Indian tuber, 374
 * 172) Cycas circinalis_, 314
 * 173) Cynamchum_ leaves, 649
 * 174) Cynosurus corocanus_, 306
 * 175) Cytisus Cajan_, 304

D

 * 1) Dacrydium cupressinum_, 505
 * 2) Dadap, a prop for the pepper, 425, 42
 * 3) Datisca cannabina_, 442
 * 4) Davis' (Dr.), analysis of maize, 265
 * 5) Day's analysis of barks, 495
 * 6) Demerara, exports of coffee from, 73
 * 7) Dholl, the Indian name for varieties of Cajanus_, 312
 * 8) Dhak tree, bark of, 507
 * 9) Dhurra, the Egyptian name for millet, 306
 * 10) Dicypellium caryophyllatum_, 384
 * 11) Didynamia gymosperma_, 520
 * 12) Dietetic articles used for the preparation of popular beverages, 11
 * 13) Dillock, a preparation with cayenne, 429
 * 14) Dioscorea aculeata_, 334, 362
 * 15) Diospyros glutinosa_, 494
 * 16) Dipterix odorata_, 434
 * 17) Dipterocarpus_, oil from, 511
 * 18) Divi-divi, 503
 * 19) Division of seasons in the tropics, 6
 * 20) Dodder cake, 564
 * 21) Dogwood, bark of, 627
 * 22) Dolichos biflorus_, varieties of, 312
 * 23) Domba oil, 513
 * 24) Dominica, exports of coffee from, 73
 * 25) Dracæna terminalis_, 355
 * 26) Drimys bark, 636
 * 27) Dryobalanops, species furnishing camphor, 634
 * 28) Dubranfaut's process of sugar making, 197, 201
 * 29) Dunsterville (Mr.), on Cape aloes, 631
 * 30) Duquesne (M.), process of making sugar from beet, 202
 * 31) Duration of various plants, 9
 * 32) Dutch pound, lighter than the English avoirdupoise pound; 100 Dutch pounds equal to 101 and 1-5th lbs.
 * 33) Dutch West Indies, production of coffee in, 41
 * 34) Duty, large, levied on tobacco, 598
 * 35) Dye stuffs, various, 440
 * 36) Dye woods, 445, 447

E

 * 1) Eagle wood, 439
 * 2) Earth mouse, 374
 * 3) Earth-nut oil, 513
 * 4) East India ginger, 416, 418
 * 5) East Indies, imports of indigo from, 477
 * 6) Eddoes or cocos, 364
 * 7) Edward's preserved potatoes, 361
 * 8) Egyptian corn, 307
 * 9) Elais, species furnishing palm oil, 524
 * 10) Elate sylvestris_ fruit, a masticatory, 579
 * 11) Elettaria Cardomomum_, 421
 * 12) Eleusine corocana_, 304
 * 13) Encephalartos cafer_, 319
 * 14) English opium, 586
 * 15) Eno bark, a black dye, 444
 * 16) Epidendrum_, species of, 431
 * 17) Ervum lens_, 312
 * 18) Erythric acid, 489
 * 19) Erythrina, a shade tree for the cacao, 15
 * 20) Erysimum perfoliatum_, oil from, 512
 * 21) Essences, 565
 * 22) Essential oils, 565
 * 23) Ethiopian pepper, 421
 * 24) Eucalyptus_, bark of, for tanning, 494
 * 25) Eugenia caryophyllata_, 397
 * 26) Eulophia virens_, 354
 * 27) Eupatorium glutinosum_, 643
 * 28) Euphorbia Lathyris_, 510
 * 29) Euterpe montana_, 549
 * 30) Evans' (Dr.) Sugar Planter's Manual, 140
 * 31) Evernia vulpina_, 488
 * 32) Evodia triphylla_, used as a perfume, 550

F

 * 1) Factory maund, about 70 pounds, 471
 * 2) Fagara piperita_, 421
 * 3) Fanega, a Spanish measure, the fifth part of an English quarter, equal to 12 quarrees, or 62 and 2-5ths acres, 13, 327
 * 4) Fanegada, a Spanish land measure, 9
 * 5) Farinaceous plants, 216
 * 6) Fennel flower, 421
 * 7) Ferula asafoetida_, 633
 * 8) Fern roots as food, 377, 380
 * 9) Fevillea scandens_, 511
 * 10) Finlayson's description of gambier manufacture, 500
 * 11) Fish oils consumed, 509
 * 12) Fitzmaurice on the sugar cane, 180
 * 13) Fixed oils, 510
 * 14) Flax seed oil, 509, 501
 * 15) Flores, a commercial classification of indigo, 456
 * 16) Florida, tobacco culture in, 609
 * 17) Flour, damaged, shipped from America, 227
 * 18) Flowering of the sugar cane, 182
 * 19) Food plants of commerce, 217
 * 20) Foo-foo, the dough of the plantain, 324
 * 21) Fortune (Mr. R.) on the tea districts, 89
 * 22) Fortune's (Mr. R.) wanderings in China, 103
 * 23) Fownes (Mr.) on clarifying cane juice, 164
 * 24) France, production of beet sugar in, 194, 200
 * 25) Frazla, the Arabian name for a bale of variable weight, in Mocha about 16 lbs. avoirdupoise,
 * 26) Free trade policy, effects of, 2
 * 27) French berries for dyeing, 443
 * 28) Fucus amylaceus_, 380
 * 29) Fundi or Fundungi, an African grain, 310
 * 30) Fustic, 445, 447, 485

G

 * 1) Gallipoli oil, 531
 * 2) Gallo tannic acid, 492
 * 3) Galidupa arborea_, 521
 * 4) Garancine, quantity and value of, 483, 484
 * 5) Gambier plant, 496
 * 6) Gamboge, 451
 * 7) Garcinea elliptica_, 451
 * 8) Garbelled, a term for sorted or picked
 * 9) Gabilla, a finger or hank of tobacco, 613
 * 10) Galangale root, 351, 418
 * 11) Garcinea Gambogia_, 640
 * 12) Garnett (Mr. A.) on the culture of the plantain, 320
 * 13) Galam butter, 538
 * 14) Gastrodia sesamoides_, 375
 * 15) Gesner (Dr.), plants recommended by, for cultivation, 371
 * 16) Genipa Americana_, 444
 * 17) Genista tinctorea_, 453
 * 18) Gentian, plants furnishing it, 640
 * 19) Ghee, 538
 * 20) Ginger, culture of, 414
 * 21) Gin, made from rye in Holland, 258
 * 22) Gigartina Iichenoides_, 379
 * 23) Gingelie seed oil, 511, 533
 * 24) Ginseng, 436
 * 25) Glen (Mr. J.), his experiments on Cassava starch, 370
 * 26) Gloves made from bark, 376
 * 27) Gluten contained in various grain crops, 264
 * 28) Gluten, composition of, 221
 * 29) Glycirrhiza, 643
 * 30) Glyrine Apios_, 371
 * 31) Glycerine, 643
 * 32) Glycirrhiza glabra_, 642
 * 33) Gnizotia oleifera_, 535
 * 34) Gohyan, an Indian name for upland rice, 282
 * 35) Gold of pleasure oil, 509
 * 36) Gomuti palm sugar, 136
 * 37) Gomatus saccharifer_, 314
 * 38) Goor, the Indian name for half-made sugar, 308
 * 39) Gorham's (Prof.) analysis of maize, 264
 * 40) Gourds used for packing aloes, 630
 * 41) Gracelaria lichenoides_, 379
 * 42) Graham (Dr.), on gamboge, 639
 * 43) Gram, the Indian name for the Ervum lens_, and _Cicer arietinum_, 312
 * 44) Grain crops, 217
 * 45) Grape sugar, properties of, 136
 * 46) Grater for rasping arrowroot, 338
 * 47) Grenada, cost of cultivating sugar in, 189
 * 48) Great Exhibition, results of, 2
 * 49) Green tea, mode of manufacturing, 113
 * 50) Griffith (Dr.) on tea plants in Assam, 111
 * 51) Groundnut oil, 511
 * 52) Guano, not much required in tropical countries, 7
 * 53) Guayaquil, large exports of cocoa from, 13
 * 54) Guazuma ulmifolia_, 164
 * 55) Guillemen's (M.) report on the tea plantations of Brazil, 128
 * 56) Guiana, cost of cultivating sugar in, 189
 * 57) Guinea pepper, 429
 * 58) Gums used by the dyers, 453
 * 59) Gum tree of Australia, 494
 * 60) Gun stock tree, 164
 * 61) Gunnera scabra_, 495
 * 62) Gunny bags, rough canvas bags, 392
 * 63) Guntang, an Indian dry measure of rather more than 15 pounds, 297
 * 64) Guaco, or snake plant, 627
 * 65) Gynerium saccharoides_, 136
 * 66) Gyrophora murina_, 486

H

 * 1) Hamatoxylon campechianum_, 484
 * 2) Hamilton (Dr.), on oil of ben, 523
 * 3) Havana tobacco, classification of, 613
 * 4) Hayti, exports of tobacco, 615
 * 5) Hazel nut, oil from, 510
 * 6) Hebradendron Cambogoides_, 451, 639
 * 7) Heather, dye from, 453
 * 8) Hectare, a French land measure, equal to about 2½ acres, 204
 * 9) Hectolitre, a French measure 192¼ bushel's
 * 10) Helot's lichen test, 452
 * 11) Herreria sarsaparilla, 646
 * 12) Heliconia humilis_, 320
 * 13) Hemlock tree, bark of, 494
 * 14) Hemp seed oil, 509
 * 15) Henna, a dye stuff, 486
 * 16) Hepatic aloes, 630
 * 17) Herring's palm kernel oil, 525
 * 18) Hernandez (Mr.) on Cuba tobacco, 608
 * 19) Heuchera Americana_, 494
 * 20) Hibiscus rosa sinensis_, 494
 * 21) Hingalee, the best Bengal tobacco, 617
 * 22) Hino bark, 606
 * 23) Hogs, large consumption of maize by, 271
 * 24) Holcomb (Mr.) on the wheat crop of America, 245
 * 25) Holcus avenaceus_, 307
 * 26) Holland, tea sent to, 86
 * 27) Honduras, export of indigo from, 460
 * 28) Hooker (Dr.) on brick tea, 92
 * 29) Hops, cascarilla bark used to adulterate, 397
 * 30) Horse gram, 312
 * 31) Hungary, production of beet sugar in, 197
 * 32) Hura crepitans_, 512, 626
 * 33) Husking rice, 290
 * 34) Hydraulic press for coco nut oil, 557
 * 35) Hydrastica canadensis_, 625
 * 36) Hymenoea Courbaril_, 313
 * 37) Hyperanthera Moringa_, 523
 * 38) Hypericum, species of, furnishes gamboge, 454, 640

I

 * 1) Iceland moss, 343, 379
 * 2) Illepe oil, 537, 511
 * 3) Ilex Paraguayensis_, indigenous to Brazil, 130
 * 4) Illicum anisatum_, 438
 * 5) Impey (Dr.) on Malwa opium, 587
 * 6) Implements of colonial agriculture few and simple, 6
 * 7) Imports of arrowroot, 351, 354
 * 8) Import commerce, our principal, articles furnished by the Vegetable Kingdom, 4
 * 9) Incense wood, 439
 * 10) Indigo, details of, 453
 * 11) Indigofera_, species of, 453
 * 12) India, tea culture in, 98
 * 13) Indiana, tobacco culture in, 607
 * 14) Indian aloes, 630
 * 15) Indian corn, weight of, 280
 * 16) Intoxicating liquors made from Cassava, 369
 * 17) Iodine, 378
 * 18) Ipecacuan, bastard, 653
 * 19) Ipomoea batatas_, 365
 * 20) Ireland, tobacco consumed in, 596
 * 21) Irish rock moss, 379
 * 22) Iron, quantity of, in tobacco, 617
 * 23) Irrigation for the tea plant never practised in China, 122
 * 24) Isatis Indigotica_,104

J

 * 1) Jaggery sugar, 555
 * 2) Japanese camphor, 633
 * 3) Japan, tea culture, 94
 * 4) Jatropha curcas_, oil from, 512
 * 5) Jacobson's (Mr.) work on tea culture in Java, 102
 * 6) Jalap, 641
 * 7) Jamaica, cost of cultivating sugar in, 189
 * 8) Jameson (Dr.) on the culture of tea in India, 106
 * 9) Java, cinnamon cultivated in, 383, 392
 * 10) Jack fruit tree, 319
 * 11) Janipha, starch in, 331
 * 12) Jasmine oil, 570, 574
 * 13) Jatropha gossypyfolia_, 625
 * 14) Jellies, clearness of, 337
 * 15) Jesuit's bark, 635
 * 16) Joar, the Indian name of the Sorghum vulgare_ or millet, 304, 306
 * 17) Job's tears, 304
 * 18) Johnson (Dr.) on manufacture of rose water, 570
 * 19) Jones's process for making rice starch, 344
 * 20) Jumowah, irrigated sowings, 468
 * 21) Juniperus, oil of, 565

K

 * 1) Kafir bread, 319
 * 2) Kamas root, an edible, 376
 * 3) Kanari kernels made into cakes, 547
 * 4) Katjang oil, produce of the ground nut, 515, 299
 * 5) Kawan, the Java tallow tree, 511
 * 6) Kashmir, culture of rice in, 295
 * 7) Kemmayes, an Arabian truffle, 381
 * 8) Kew Gardens, tea plant grows in, 101
 * 9) Kekune oil, 539
 * 10) Kentucky tobacco, statistics of, 598, 600
 * 11) Keora oil, 565
 * 12) Khoonte, the Indian name for a second cutting, 471
 * 13) Kiln-drying madder, 481
 * 14) Kilogramme, a French weight, equal to 21bs. 3oz. avoird., 194
 * 15) Kino, Australian, 506
 * 16) Knowltonia vessicatoria_, 626
 * 17) Koster's Travels in Brazil, 186
 * 18) Kous-kous, 311
 * 19) Kooyah plant, 376
 * 20) Kukui oil, 539
 * 21) Kumaon, tea plantations in, 117

L

 * 1) Laudanum, 584
 * 2) Lawsonia inermis_, 486
 * 3) Laminaria saccharina_, 379
 * 4) Lathyrus tuberosus_,374
 * 5) Larch bark edible, 376
 * 6) Laurus camphora_, 633, 35
 * 7) La Guayra, cacao from, 13
 * 8) Lana dye, 444
 * 9) Lecythis Tabucajo_, 512
 * 10) Lemon grass oil, 672
 * 11) Legumes, varieties of, 312
 * 12) Lecanora, species of, 432
 * 13) Lentils, 312
 * 14) Leaf tobacco shipped from the Havana, 614
 * 15) Liberia, suitability for coffee culture, 77
 * 16) Lichen tribe as food, 378
 * 17) Lichens, 486
 * 18) Lichenin, 343
 * 19) Licospermun racemosum_, 605
 * 20) Lindley (Dr.) on the cinchonas, 635
 * 21) Litmus, 452
 * 22) Lignum aloes, 439
 * 23) Litre, a French measure, equal to 1¾ English pint nearly, 202
 * 24) Lime, its influence on cane juice, 161
 * 25) Lindley (Prof.) on the wheat of South Australia, 221
 * 26) Lindley's classification of the plantain tribe, 322
 * 27) Liptospermum, oil of, 565
 * 28) Lilium Pomponium_, 356
 * 29) Lindley (Dr.) on the lichens, 486
 * 30) Linseed, 535
 * 31) Little (Mr.) on opium, 587
 * 32) Libra, a Spanish kind of tobacco, 613
 * 33) Liquorice, 642
 * 34) Logwood, 445, 447, 484
 * 35) Lotus seeds, used as food, 356
 * 36) Locust tree, 313
 * 37) Louisiana, cost of producing sugar in, 189
 * 38) Loxa bark, 636
 * 39) Luffas, properties of, 626
 * 40) Luggie, a measuring rod, 471
 * 41) Lucca oil, 531

M

 * 1) Macfarlane (Mr. A.) on the tea plant,117
 * 2) Madder, culture of, 478
 * 3) Madia sativa_ oil, 520
 * 4) Mahowa oil, 537
 * 5) Maclura tinctoria_, 485
 * 6) Mauritius weed, 486
 * 7) Mangrove bark, for tanning, 493
 * 8) Mac Micking (Mr.) on making cigars, 620
 * 9) Margose oil, 537
 * 10) Macaw tree, 519
 * 11) Maxwell (Dr.) on Neem oil, 537
 * 12) Marc of olives, 531
 * 13) Mango, kernel of, for bread, 378
 * 14) Marmala water, 574
 * 15) Malabar cardamoms, 419
 * 16) Manila, exports of indigo from, 476
 * 17) Mattrasses, stuffed with blades of Indian corn, 281
 * 18) Macculloch's (Mr.) estimate of indigo, 478
 * 19) Maize, number of varieties cultivated, 278
 * 20) Malphigia bark, for tanning, 495
 * 21) Maslin, quantity grown in France, 250
 * 22) Mace, imports of, 414
 * 23) Malt, quantity made, 255
 * 24) Mahoe, furnishes a dye stuff, 444
 * 25) Mauritius, exports of pepper, 426
 * 26) Mangrove bark, 450, 506
 * 27) Madagascar cardamoms, 419
 * 28) Mangostana Gambogia_, 451, 640
 * 29) Maple sugar, 205
 * 30) Manettia glabra_, 641
 * 31) Madeira, introduction of the tea plant, 94
 * 32) Madras, tea culture suitable for, 101
 * 33) Marah (Mr.) prize essay on coffee culture, 69
 * 34) Malambo bark, 636
 * 35) Machinery for sugar, 140
 * 36) Magdalena river, cacao indigenous on its shores, 14
 * 37) Magnolia fuseata_, used to flavor tea, 85
 * 38) Majoon, an opium confection, 585
 * 39) Malabar, production of coffee in, 41
 * 40) Malwa opium, 580
 * 41) Manure, a special for tobacco, 592
 * 42) Manures, suited to the coffee tree, 50
 * 43) Manioc, see Cassava
 * 44) Manihot, species of, 367
 * 45) Mansana, a land measure of 100 square yards, or nearly two British statute acres, 455
 * 46) Manyroot, 625
 * 47) Maranta arundinacea_, juice of an antidote to poisons, 627
 * 48) Marattia alata_, 380
 * 49) Maryland tobacco, statistics of, 598, 600
 * 50) Mate, a name for the Paraguay tea, 133
 * 51) Matico, 643
 * 52) Matias bark, 636
 * 53) Maund of Surat, 39¼ lbs.
 * 54) Melaleuca minor_, 566
 * 55) Metrosideros tomentosa_, 505
 * 56) Mesembryanthemum nodiflorum_, 494
 * 57) Menispermum coceulus_, 576
 * 58) Megass, a name given to the dried cane stems, or trash used for fuel, 168
 * 59) Meleguetta pepper, 420
 * 60) Melsen's process of sugar boiling, 203
 * 61) Mespilus Bengalensis_, 443
 * 62) Mendo, a wild sweet potato of North America, 372
 * 63) Menomine, an Indian edible root, 372
 * 64) Mexican thistle, 626
 * 65) Mexico, imports of indigo from, 477
 * 66) Metroxylon sagus_, 314
 * 67) Millet, varieties of, cultivated, 304
 * 68) Miller on tobacco culture, 608
 * 69) Mill, rude one, used in Siam for hulling paddy, 302
 * 70) Mills for cleaning rice, 286, 288
 * 71) Minot, a Canadian grain measure about one-eighth less than a bushel, 251
 * 72) Milloco, a tuberous plant, 374
 * 73) Mint, culture of, 567
 * 74) Mimosa bark, 504
 * 75) Mico or mijo, a vegetable butter made in Java, 313, 512
 * 76) Monkey bread, 378
 * 77) Morinda, species of, 443, 449
 * 78) Morewood (Mr. E.), his exertions in Natal, 140
 * 79) Mocha, production of coffee in, 41
 * 80) Mother cloves, definition of, 397
 * 81) Moussache, the fecula of the manioc, 315
 * 82) Mountain rice, 285, 290, 296
 * 83) Morphia, proportion in opium, 584, 585
 * 84) Mora excelsa_, 495
 * 85) Morinda citrifolia_, 478
 * 86) Moringa oil, 523
 * 87) Musa, species of, 319
 * 88) Musquash root of the Micmacs, 371
 * 89) Mustard seed, 437
 * 90) Muscovado sugar, cost of producing, 189
 * 91) Mucuna pruriens_, 625
 * 92) Muchowa_ oil, 511
 * 93) Musa textilis_, 321
 * 94) Mustard oil, 510, 511
 * 95) Munjeet, 449
 * 96) Munjestha_, 484
 * 97) Muracuja ocellata_, a narcotic, 489
 * 98) Myrica cerifera_, 494, 540
 * 99) Myrtus carophyllata_, 284
 * 100) Myristica_, varieties of the tree, 401
 * 101) Myrobolans, 506
 * 102) Myrtle wax, 540
 * 103) Mysore, production of coffee in, 41

N

 * 1) Napoota_ oil, 620
 * 2) Nauclea Gambir_, 496
 * 3) Namur oil, 572
 * 4) Natal Agricultural Society, its endeavours to promote sugar cultivation, 139
 * 5) Narthex asafoetida_, 633
 * 6) Nelumbium_, seed of, as food, 378
 * 7) New South Wales, suited for madder, 482
 * 8) Negrohead tobacco, 601
 * 9) New Orleans, capabilities for rice culture, 287
 * 10) Nerium_, 453
 * 11) Neem tree oil, 511, 537
 * 12) Nicaragua wood, 445, 447
 * 13) Nipa fruticana_, 136
 * 14) Nipah, leaf for thatching, 559
 * 15) Nicotine, 590
 * 16) Nicotium_, species of the plant, 590
 * 17) Nitrogen, in grain, 307
 * 18) Nigella, species of, 421
 * 19) North West Provinces, tea culture in, 117
 * 20) Nostoe edulis_, 378
 * 21) Northern Australia, directions for growing tobacco, 623
 * 22) Nut oil, price of, 517
 * 23) Nutgall, tannin in, 492, 495
 * 24) Nut pine, 377
 * 25) Nutmeg tree, 401
 * 26) Nux vomica_, 577
 * 27) Nyctanthes arbortristes_, 494
 * 28) Nymphæa lotus_, starch obtained from, 352

O

 * 1) Oats, proportion of oil in, 564
 * 2) Oatmeal, imported 218
 * 3) Oats and beans, produce of in England, 248
 * 4) Oak bark, tannin in, 492
 * 5) Ocas, a tuberous plant, 374
 * 6) Ocoes or taniers, 331
 * 7) Ocymum tuberosum_, 356, 367
 * 8) Ohio tobacco, statistics of, 598, 600
 * 9) Oil of aniseed, 438
 * 10) Oil, proportions of in various crops, 264
 * 11) Oil of cubebs, 639
 * 12) Oil of cloves, 398
 * 13) Oilcake as a manure, 50
 * 14) Oil palm, 525
 * 15) Oils, burning properties of various, 508
 * 16) Oldenlandia umbellata_, 449
 * 17) Oleaginous plants, 509
 * 18) Olea fragrans_, 528
 * 19) Olives, mode of preserving the fruit, 530
 * 20) Olive oil, prices of, 531
 * 21) Omen-e-chah, the Indian name for a wild bean, 372
 * 22) Onions, planted with arrow root, 347
 * 23) Ophelia chitrata_, 641
 * 24) Opium, history and trade of, 580
 * 25) Orceine, 488
 * 26) Orchilla weed, 452
 * 27) Orchids furnishing salep, 354
 * 28) Orituco cacao, superior quality of, 14
 * 29) Oryza, varieties of, 284
 * 30) Orlong, a land measure in the East, equal to 1-1/3 acre, 297
 * 31) O'Shaughnessy's analysis of Ceylon moss, 380
 * 32) Oswego starch factory, 343
 * 33) Otto of khuskhus, 573
 * 34) Otaheite cane, 153
 * 35) Oude, production of indigo in, 464, 475
 * 36) Oxalic acid, used for vinegar, 312
 * 37) Oxley (Dr.) on nutmeg culture, 402

P

 * 1) Paddy, a name for rice in the husk, 297
 * 2) Patchouly, 537
 * 3) Pannam kilingoes, 376
 * 4) Parchment coffee, 60
 * 5) Pao Crava_, one of the spice barks, 384
 * 6) Pachyrrhizus angulatus_, 377
 * 7) Palm oil, imports of, 527
 * 8) Palm oil, 509, 524
 * 9) Palma Christi, 542
 * 10) Palmetto palm, 495
 * 11) Palmyra nut, first shoot of, edible, 376
 * 12) Pan, a masticatory, 577
 * 13) Pancratium, species of, 625
 * 14) Pandanus, fruit of eaten as food, 377
 * 15) Panicum, various species of, 304
 * 16) Panax quinquefolium_, 436
 * 17) Palos de Velas_, 521
 * 18) Paper made from plantain fibre, 335
 * 19) Papsalum exile_, 310
 * 20) Papaver somniferum_, 580
 * 21) Paraguay tea plant common in Brazil. 130
 * 22) Parietinic acid, 488
 * 23) Parmenteira cerifera_, 521
 * 24) Parmelia, species of lichens, 486
 * 25) Peas, analysis of, 264
 * 26) Peeling coffee, 51, 60
 * 27) Peligot (Mr.) on the composition of wheat, 230
 * 28) Pepper, black, 421
 * 29) Peppermint oil, 566
 * 30) Peon, the Spanish term for a laborer, 135
 * 31) Persea gratissima_, 444
 * 32) Perfumed oils, 569
 * 33) Persian berries, 443
 * 34) Peas imported, 218
 * 35) Pessaloo, an Indian name for the Phaseolus mungo_
 * 36) Pereira's classification of the cinchonas, 636
 * 37) Peruvian bark, 635
 * 38) Pearl sago, 318
 * 39) Piper angustifolium_, 643
 * 40) Petty rice, 310
 * 41) Pekea_, species of, yielding oil, 512
 * 42) Pea-nut, 516
 * 43) Persian tobacco, 615
 * 44) Phaseolus, varieties of, 312
 * 45) Phaseolus Mungo max_, 171
 * 46) Phalaris caniesis_, 314
 * 47) Phlomis, 643
 * 48) Philippines, cassia brought from, 394
 * 49) Philippine Islands, sugar cultivation in, 153
 * 50) Philippines, export of indigo from, 476
 * 51) Phillip's (Dr.) analyses of Guinea corn, 307
 * 52) Phyllodadus trichomanoides_, 505
 * 53) Physic nut, 512, 625
 * 54) Picul, a Dutch weight of 133-1/3 English pounds, 36
 * 55) Piddington's (Mr.) analyses of tobacco, 617
 * 56) Pigeon-pea, 304
 * 57) Pignons, use of as food, 377
 * 58) Pimpinella Anisitm_, 437
 * 59) Pimento, 430
 * 60) Pinang, nutmegs in, 412
 * 61) Piper Betel, 577
 * 62) Pinus Pinea_, seeds of the cones used for food, 377
 * 63) Piney tallow, 512
 * 64) Plantation sugar, imports, 139
 * 65) Plantado passado, 323
 * 66) Plantain, dye stuffs obtained from, 444
 * 67) Planche, his memoir on the sagos, 315
 * 68) Plumeria_, essences of, 524
 * 69) Plectranthus graveolens_, 573
 * 70) Plough used in Brazil, 184
 * 71) Polygonum fagopyrum_, 260
 * 72) Poa Abyssinica_, 308
 * 73) Pomegranates, for dyeing, 440
 * 74) Potash an important element in maize, 267
 * 75) Potatoes, mode of keeping in Peru, 361
 * 76) Potato, information respecting, 10
 * 77) Poisons, 627
 * 78) Pomme des Prairies_, of the Canadians, 373
 * 79) Pounding coffee, 61
 * 80) Population of Great Britain, &c., 87
 * 81) Porto Rico, exports of coffee, 77
 * 82) Poonac, as manure, 50
 * 83) Pomegranate bark, 493, 495
 * 84) Poonay oil, 511-13
 * 85) Polygonum tinctorium_, 453
 * 86) Pongamia glabra_, 521
 * 87) Pogostemon patchouly_, 573
 * 88) Poppy, culture of, 581
 * 89) Polypodium crassifolium_, used as a perfume, 550
 * 90) Preserved Plantains, 323
 * 91) Prices, average of sugar, 145
 * 92) Prickly poppy, 626
 * 93) Princeza snuff, 594
 * 94) Prince of Wales Island, clove culture in, 399
 * 95) Prosopis pallida_, 313
 * 96) Protein compounds, 307, 310, 342
 * 97) Produce of various plants, 9
 * 98) Production, average of various plants, 9
 * 99) Provence oil, 531
 * 100) Province Wellesley, clove culture in, 400
 * 101) Prussia, tobacco consumed by, 596
 * 102) Pruning coffee tree, 69
 * 103) Psoralia, varieties of, 372
 * 104) Pteris esculenta_, 380
 * 105) Pterocarpus marsupium_, 493
 * 106) Pulping mill for coffee, 51
 * 107) Purging nut, 625
 * 108) Pulse, culture of, 312
 * 109) Putchuk or Costus, 438
 * 110) Punjaub, proposed culture of tea in, 101
 * 111) Pustulatus_ moss, 486

Q

 * 1) Qually, an iron vessel for drying sago, 317
 * 2) Quarree, a Spanish land measure, about 5¾ English acres, 326
 * 3) Quassia wood, 643
 * 4) Quas, a fermented Russian beverage, 308
 * 5) Quercitron, 443
 * 6) Quercus tinctoria_, 443, 485
 * 7) Quintal, the Spanish cwt., equal to 101¾ lbs. English,
 * 8) Quinine, imports of, 636
 * 9) Quillai, bark of, used for soap, 574
 * 10) Quinoa, 310

R

 * 1) Railways, large consumption of oil for, 513
 * 2) Ramos (Mr.) his dessicating agent for sugar, 140, 162
 * 3) Ramalina fufuracea_, 486
 * 4) Ram-til, 535
 * 5) Ramsay (Mr. C. J.) on beet sugar manufacture, 200
 * 6) Ranunculus, properties of, 626
 * 7) Rape oil, 609
 * 8) Rape seed, quantity imported, 563
 * 9) Raphis fabelliformis_, 314
 * 10) Red pepper, 429
 * 11) Reseda lutea_, 452
 * 12) Revenue from sugar, 143
 * 13) Rhamnus, varieties of, 442
 * 14) Rhizaphora mangle_, 493, 506
 * 15) Rhubarb, 644
 * 16) Rhus, species of, 450
 * 17) Ricinus communis_, 542
 * 18) Rial, a Spanish coin worth 6d., 135
 * 19) Rice starch, 344
 * 20) Rice imported, 218
 * 21) Richardsonia scabra_, 641
 * 22) Rimu, or red pine, 505
 * 23) Robertson (Mr.) on the collection of Paraguay tea, 133
 * 24) Robiquet (E.) analysis of aloes, 629
 * 25) Rocella dye, 452
 * 26) Room, an Indian dye stuff, 443
 * 27) Roucou, a name for arnotto, 447
 * 28) Rotation of crops, 243
 * 29) Root crops, 355
 * 30) Rollers, proportionate advantages of those with 3 & 4, 168
 * 31) Roxburgh on the sugar cane, 179
 * 32) Roses, cultivation of, 570
 * 33) Rottlera tinctoria_, 442
 * 34) Royle's (Prof.) productive resources of India, 103
 * 35) Rubia cordifolia_, 484
 * 36) Ruellia tuberosa_, 625
 * 37) Ruellia, a dye stuff, 443
 * 38) Rupee, an Indian coin worth about, 2s
 * 39) Russia, production of beet sugar in, 199
 * 40) Rye, analysis of, 258

S

 * 1) Sappan wood, 445, 446, 447
 * 2) Salisbury (Dr.), analysis of maize, 265
 * 3) Saxony, beet sugar manufacture in, 199
 * 4) Salt, recommended as a fertiliser, 172
 * 5) Santalum album_, 565
 * 6) Saa-ga-ban root of the Indians, 371
 * 7) Saga, the Java name for bread, 314
 * 8) Saccharum sinensis_ of Roxburgh, 136, 169
 * 9) Safflower, 450
 * 10) Salangore sugar cane, an excellent variety, 154
 * 11) Sandwich Islands, arrowroot made in, 352
 * 12) Sandbox, seeds of, emetic, 626
 * 13) Saul tree, wood useful for tea boxes, 114
 * 14) Sarsaparilla, 645
 * 15) Saguerus Rumphii_, 314, 316
 * 16) Salep, 354
 * 17) Samshing, a refuse produce of opium, 585
 * 18) Sandoway in Arracan produces superior tobacco, 616
 * 19) Saponaceous plants, 674
 * 20) Sapindus, varieties of, 574
 * 21) Salvadora persica_, 521
 * 22) Sapindus marginatus_, 521
 * 23) Saouari oil, 512
 * 24) Sanguinaria canadensis_, 511
 * 25) Scammony, 642
 * 26) Scharling's (Dr.) test for adulterated arrowroot, 349
 * 27) Schomburgk (Sir R.), arrowroot forwarded by, 352
 * 28) Scotland, produce of grain in, 249
 * 29) Seed leaf tobacco, 606
 * 30) Senna, varieties of, 647
 * 31) Sesame oil, 511, 533
 * 32) Setaria italica_, 305
 * 33) Shanghae oil, 511
 * 34) Sheet lead, manufacture of for tea cases, 114
 * 35) Shorea robusta_, 114, 521
 * 36) Shier (Dr.), his opinion on cassava starch, 370
 * 37) Shea butter, 538
 * 38) Shiraz tobacco, 613
 * 39) Sicily oil, 531
 * 40) Siam gamboge, 639
 * 41) Sidu lanceolata_, 574
 * 42) Sugar, obtained from the palm tree, 314
 * 43) Simaruba amara_, 643
 * 44) Singapore, produce of gambier in, 501
 * 45) Sinapis, species of, yielding oil, 512
 * 46) Silica, essential for wheat soils, 240
 * 47) Singhara nuts, 378
 * 48) Sinde, culture of rice in, 293
 * 49) Smith (Dr.), his experiments in tea culture in America, 95
 * 50) Snuff, duty received on, 597
 * 51) Sorghum officinarum_, 136
 * 52) Soap, made from coco-nut oil, 559, 562
 * 53) Soil suited to coffee, 68
 * 54) Solly (Prof.) on the want of a hand-hook for the cultivator, 1
 * 55) Society of Arts, premiums offered by, 2
 * 56) Soconusco, the finest cacao, 13
 * 57) Socotrine aloes, analysis of, 629
 * 58) Soja hispida_, 313
 * 59) Soy, mode of making, 313
 * 60) Sohrinjee oil, 478, 523
 * 61) South Australia, tobacco culture  in, 624
 * 62) South Carolina, exports of rice from, 285
 * 63) Sooranjee, 478, 523
 * 64) Spergula sativa_, flour from the seed, 377
 * 65) Sphoeroccus crispus_, 379
 * 66) Spanish moss, 380
 * 67) Spices, plants which furnish, 382
 * 68) Spikenard oil, 572
 * 69) Spondius lutea_, 495
 * 70) Spergula sativa_, 512
 * 71) Stalagmites cambogoides_, 451
 * 72) Star anise, 438
 * 73) Starch producing plants, 329
 * 74) Starch contained in various grain crops, 264
 * 75) Statice coriaria_, 444
 * 76) Stenhouse (Dr.) on the lichens, 490
 * 77) Stillingia sebifera_, 512
 * 78) St. John's bread, 312-13
 * 79) St. Lucia, cost of cultivating sugar, in, 189
 * 80) St. Kitt's, cost of cultivating sugar in, 189
 * 81) St. Domingo, exports of coffee to the United States, 63
 * 82) St. Vincent, introduction of the clove to, 399
 * 83) Straits settlements, nutmeg culture in, 407
 * 84) Sumbul root, 649
 * 85) Surat maund, 39¼ lbs., 401
 * 86) Sumach, 450
 * 87) Sunflower oil, 509-10-36
 * 88) Sullivan (Mr.) on cost of beet root sugar, 191
 * 89) Sugar, cost of producing in different countries, 189
 * 90) Sugar cane, varieties of, 137, 153, 168
 * 91) Sugar, information respecting, 10
 * 92) Sugar maple, 205
 * 93) Sumatra, production of coffee in, 41
 * 94) Sumatra, production of pepper in, 422
 * 95) Sweet cassava, 331
 * 96) Sweet potato, 330-31-37-65
 * 97) Swift (Mr.) on the culture of madder, 480
 * 98) Swamp potato, 373
 * 99) Sxygium carophyllæum_, 384
 * 100) Sylvanus surinamensis_, 279
 * 101) Symplocos, varieties of, 442

T

 * 1) Tacca plant, species of, 354
 * 2) Tahiti arrowroot, 354
 * 3) Talipot palm, furnishes sago, 316
 * 4) Tallicoonah oil, 518
 * 5) Tallow tree of China, 512
 * 6) Tanping, a Chinese oil cake, 312
 * 7) Tannin of nutgalls, 492
 * 8) Tannia, 334-35-36-37
 * 9) Tanahaka bark, 505
 * 10) Tapioca sago, 315
 * 11) Tasmannia aromatica_, 421
 * 12) Taro, 364
 * 13) Tartareous moss, 486
 * 14) Taniers, or ocoes, 331
 * 15) Taurine, Leibig on, 80
 * 16) Tea, total outlay for by the British public, 86
 * 17) Teel or Til oil, 511, 533
 * 18) Teff, an African bread, 308
 * 19) Teinsing, a Chinese vegetable dye, 104
 * 20) Temperature requisite for various plants, 8, 9
 * 21) Tempering cane juice, 158
 * 22) Tenacity of starches, 336
 * 23) Terminalia angustifolia_, 494
 * 24) Terra Japonica, a misnomer, 490
 * 25) Teuss, a Chinese legume, 312
 * 26) Texas, production of sugar in, 147
 * 27) Thespesia populnea_, 444
 * 28) Thea viridis_, 103, 110
 * 29) Theine, analysis of, 80
 * 30) Thistle oil, 511, 103, 110, 626
 * 31) Theobromine, 11
 * 32) Theobroma_, description of the tree, 11
 * 33) Tikoor, a local name for Indian arrowroot, 351
 * 34) Til oil, 511
 * 35) Tip-sin-ah, a wild prairie turnip of North America, 372
 * 36) Tinnevelly senna, 648
 * 37) Ti plant, 355
 * 38) Tirhoot, production of indigo in, 475
 * 39) Tobacco, memorial of American Chamber of Commerce, 595
 * 40) Tonquin beans, 434
 * 41) Tous-les-mois, starch of, 330-33-35-37-40
 * 42) Topinam bar, 365-76
 * 43) Topping the coffee tree, 68
 * 44) Towai bark, 505
 * 45) Toddy, 555
 * 46) Travers (Mr. J.I.) on consumption of tea, 87
 * 47) Trinidad, exports of coffee from, 73
 * 48) Tropæolum tuberosum_, 536
 * 49) Tripa, a name for damaged tobacco leaves, 611
 * 50) Tripolium alpinum_, 643
 * 51) Truffle, 381
 * 52) Tuberous plants, new, recommended, 370
 * 53) Tuber cibarium_, 381
 * 54) Turkey berries, 442
 * 55) Turmeric, 419, 434, 442
 * 56) Turnips, average weight of crop in New Brunswick, 253
 * 57) Turpentine, spirits of, 565
 * 58) Typha bread, 380
 * 59) Tye, a preparation of opium, 585

U

 * 1) Unearia Gambier_, 496
 * 2) United States, production of sugar in, 145
 * 3) Upland rice, 302
 * 4) Ure (Dr.), on arrowroot manufacture, 347
 * 5) Urania guianensis_, 444

V

 * 1) Valenaria edulis_, 376
 * 2) Valonia, 507
 * 3) Van Diemen's Land, culture of oats in, 258
 * 4) Vanilla, 431
 * 5) Vara, a Spanish land measure, 9
 * 6) Variolaris_, species of lichens, 486
 * 7) Varzeas, a Portuguese name for low and marshy ground, 183
 * 8) Vateria indica_, 512
 * 9) Vegetable butter, 538
 * 10) Velvet moss, 486
 * 11) Venezuela, coffee culture in, 62
 * 12) Verbesena sativa_, 535
 * 13) Vernonia anthelmentica_, 521
 * 14) Vinegar, made from millet, 306
 * 15) Virginian tobacco, statistics of, 598, 600
 * 16) Virola sebifera_, 401, 512
 * 17) Voandzou, 371
 * 18) Voelcker (Dr.), analysis of quinoa, 310
 * 19) Volatile or essential oils, 565
 * 20) Vuelta abajo_, the best class of Cuba tobacco, 613
 * 21) Vulpinic acid, 488

W

 * 1) Wabessepin, a wild American potato, 372
 * 2) Wages paid in the Mauritius, 150
 * 3) Walnut, oil from, 510
 * 4) Wangle, oil seed, 533
 * 5) Watappinee, an Indian edible root, 372
 * 6) Water, proportion of in different kinds of wheat, 221
 * 7) Wax berries, 546
 * 8) Weinmaunia_, bark of, 499
 * 9) Weight per bushel of crops in New Brunswick, 253
 * 10) Wellstead (Lt.) on Socotro aloes, 629
 * 11) Westring (Dr.) on the Swedish lichens, 489-90
 * 12) West India ginger, 418
 * 13) Wheat, weight of, as an index of value, 236
 * 14) White pepper, statistics of, 428
 * 15) Whisky, quantity of maize used for, 271
 * 16) Wilcockes on Paraguay tea trade, 135
 * 17) Williams's Middle Kingdom, extract from, 105
 * 18) Willoughbeia edulis_, 378
 * 19) Wilson (Mr. T.) on the cost of producing sugar, 189
 * 20) Wilson's rice-cleaning machine, 290
 * 21) Winnowing coffee, 51
 * 22) Woad, 452
 * 23) Wood dyes, 449
 * 24) Wray's practical sugar planter, 140
 * 25) Wrightia tinctoria_, 463

X

 * 1) Xanthoxylum piperitum_, 421
 * 2) Xiguilite_, the indigo shrub, 460
 * 3) Xylocarpus granatum_, 519
 * 4) Xylopia aromatica_, 421

Y

 * 1) Yam, back, 333, 335, 337-38-39, 362
 * 2) Yams, varieties of cultivated, 362
 * 3) Yampah root, 376
 * 4) Yellow berries, 443
 * 5) Yerba, Spanish and native name for the Paraguay tea tree, 133
 * 6) Yucca amarga_, 331
 * 7) Yucca, the Peruvian name for cassava, 367, 375

Z

 * 1) Zamia, arrowroot obtained from, 319, 352
 * 2) Zanzibar, clove plantations in, 400
 * 3) Zea Mays_, description of, 260
 * 4) Zingiber officinale_, 414
 * 5) Zizania aquatica_, 284
 * 6) Zones, Meyen's division of, 25
 * 7) Zollverein, production of beet root sugar in, 198