Nitrogen.  Proteine compounds. 
Per cent.  Per cent. 
Maize meal (unhusked) 1.73 10.72
Plantain meal .88 5.45
Cassava meal (juice expressed) .36 2.23
Ditto from the sliced and dried roots .78 4.83
]

[Footnote 47:  Les Moyens de prevenir la Maladie des Pommes de Terre.  Experiences et Conclusions de A.N.C.  Bollman, Conseiller d’etat, Professeur, &c. 8vo, St. Petersburg, 1853.]

[Footnote 48:  If cinnamon seeds after washing be exposed to the sun, even for twenty minutes, the shells will crack in two, and this prevents the seeds from growing.]

[Footnote 49:  No export duties exist in the Straits Settlements.]

[Footnote 50:  Since these remarks were written, the duty has been wholly abolished.]

[Footnote 51:  Although this was the amount of produce for 1842, it must be remarked that that crop was a complete failure, and the average crop for some years past has been 46,666 pounds.]

[Footnote 52:  Ure’s Dictionary of Arts and Manufactures.]

[Footnote 53:  The vernacular name for stale or putrid urine.]

[Footnote 54:  “Lit” was the name applied to the plant, from which the dye was to be prepared, and “pig” is the Scotch synonym for any kind of earthenware vessel—–­in which the maceration was generally carried on.]

[Footnote 55:  Pitkins’ Statistics of the United States.]

[Footnote 56:  A great portion of the crop I grew had leaves measuring two feet nine inches in length and eighteen inches wide, being larger than I ever knew to have been grown in America.  The average weight I obtained per acre, was 25 cwt.; whereas I see by the public returns, the average of what is grown here is only 17 1-7th cwt.]

  INDEX.

  Albrus precatorius, 643

  Acacia bark, 493
    Catechu, 495, 577
    dealbata, 505

  Acer saccharinum, 205

  Acre, coffee trees to the, 69

  Achira plant, 355

  Achote, a name for arnotto, 447

  Acrocomia fusiformis, 519

  Adeps Myristica, 402

  Adme cyperus, 626

  Adenanthera Pavonina, 378

  Adansonia digitata, 378

  African arrowroot, 353
    lard, 525
    purple millet, 307

  Africa, pepper grown in, 422
    tobacco culture in, 615

  Agar-Agar moss, 378, 379

  Agi or Guinea pepper, 429

  Agave Americana—­a substitute for soap, 574

  Agaiti oil, 520

  Agricultural wealth of tropical regions, 2

  Aipi, 376

  Akyab, exports of rice from, 297

  Aleurites triloba, 521, 538

  Alexandrian senna, 648

  Algaroba beans, 313
    bark, 503