Mangrove bark, 450, 506

  Madagascar cardamoms, 419

  Mangostana Gambogia, 451, 640

  Maple sugar, 205

  Manettia glabra, 641

  Madeira, introduction of the tea plant, 94

  Madras, tea culture suitable for, 101
    exports of indigo from, 464
    cost of producing sugar in, 189

  Marah (Mr.) prize essay on coffee culture, 69

  Malambo bark, 636

  Machinery for sugar, 140
    for coffee, 51
    for arrowrot, 350, 348
    required for the plantain, 324
    required for sago, 318

  Magdalena river, cacao indigenous on its shores, 14

  Magnolia fuseata, used to flavor tea, 85

  Majoon, an opium confection, 585

  Malabar, production of coffee in, 41
    cassia, 394
    ginger, 415
    pepper produced in, 422

  Malwa opium, 580

  Manure, a special for tobacco, 592

  Manures, suited to the coffee tree, 50
    for the nutmeg, 406
    suited for arrowroot, 347
    scarcely required in tropical countries, 6
    suited for the sugar cane, 172
    suited to maize 278

  Manioc, see Cassava

  Manihot, species of, 367
    utilissima, 315

  Mansana, a land measure of 100 square yards, or nearly two British statute acres, 455

  Manyroot, 625

  Maranta arundinacea, juice of an antidote to poisons, 627

  Marattia alata, 380

  Maryland tobacco, statistics of, 598, 600

  Mate, a name for the Paraguay tea, 133

  Matico, 643

  Matias bark, 636

  Maund of Surat, 391/4 lbs.
    an Indian weight of varable quantity

  Melaleuca minor, 566

  Metrosideros tomentosa, 505

  Mesembryanthemum nodiflorum, 494

  Menispermum coceulus, 576
    palmatum, 638

  Megass, a name given to the dried cane stems, or trash used for fuel, 168

  Meleguetta pepper, 420

  Melsen’s process of sugar boiling, 203

  Mespilus Bengalensis, 443

  Mendo, a wild sweet potato of North America, 372

  Menomine, an Indian edible root, 372

  Mexican thistle, 626

  Mexico, imports of indigo from, 477

  Metroxylon sagus, 314

  Millet, varieties of, cultivated, 304
    the great Indian, 306

  Miller on tobacco culture, 608

  Mill, rude one, used in Siam for hulling paddy, 302
    for crushing plantain stems, 327

  Mills for cleaning rice, 286, 288

  Minot, a Canadian grain measure about one-eighth less than a bushel, 251

  Milloco, a tuberous plant, 374

  Mint, culture of, 567

  Mimosa bark, 504