Catalogue Of Economic Plants In The Collection Of The U S Depar

205. FICUS ELASTICA.--This plant is known as the india-rubber tree. It is a native of the East Indies, and is the chief source of caoutchouc from that quarter of the globe, alth...

322. OSMANTHUS FRAGRANS.--This plant has long been cultivated as _Olea fragrans_. The flowers have a fine fragrance, and are used by the Chinese to perfume tea. It appears that...

97. CASUARINA QUADRIVALVIS.--This Tasmanian tree produces a very hard wood of a reddish color, often called Beef wood. It is marked with dark stripes, and is much used in some p...

378. SANDORICUM INDICUM.--A tropical tree, sometimes called the Indian sandal tree, which produces a fruit like an apple, of agreeable acid flavor. The root of the tree has some...

264. LIMONIA ACIDISSIMA.--An East India shrub which produces round fruits about the size of damson plums, of a yellowish color, with reddish or purplish tints. They are extremel...

47. ARTANTHE ELONGATA.--A plant of the pepper family, which furnishes one of the articles known by the Peruvians as Matico, and which is used by them for the same purposes as cu...

143. CORYPHA UMBRACULIFERA.--The Talipot palm, a native of Ceylon, producing gigantic fan-like leaves. These leaves have prickly stalks 6 or 7 feet long, and when fully expanded...

Produced by Stephen Blundell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Ar...

431. ZINGIBER OFFICINALE.--This plant is cultivated in most warm countries for the sake of its rhizomes, which furnish the spice called ginger. It is prepared by digging up the...