Sappan wood, 445, 446, 447

  Salisbury (Dr.), analysis of maize, 265

  Saxony, beet sugar manufacture in, 199

  Salt, recommended as a fertiliser, 172

  Santalum album, 565

  Saa-ga-ban root of the Indians, 371

  Saga, the Java name for bread, 314
    imported, 218
    flour, exports of, 318
    palms, 314
    millet used for, 306

  Saccharum sinensis of Roxburgh, 136, 169
    violacum, 136

  Safflower, 450

  Salangore sugar cane, an excellent variety, 154

  Sandwich Islands, arrowroot made in, 352

  Sandbox, seeds of, emetic, 626
    tree, 512

  Saul tree, wood useful for tea boxes, 114

  Sarsaparilla, 645

  Saguerus Rumphii, 314, 316
    inermis, 314
    laevis, 314
    farinifera, 316

  Salep, 354

  Samshing, a refuse produce of opium, 585

  Sandoway in Arracan produces superior tobacco, 616

  Saponaceous plants, 674

  Sapindus, varieties of, 574

  Salvadora persica, 521

  Sapindus marginatus, 521

  Saouari oil, 512

  Sanguinaria canadensis, 511

  Scammony, 642

  Scharling’s (Dr.) test for adulterated arrowroot, 349

  Schomburgk (Sir R.), arrowroot forwarded by, 352
    discovers a new tuberous plant, 374
    discovers wild plantains, 320

  Scotland, produce of grain in, 249
  Seed leaf tobacco, 606
    wheat in France, 219

  Senna, varieties of, 647

  Sesame oil, 511, 533

  Setaria italica, 305
    germanica, 304

  Shanghae oil, 511

  Sheet lead, manufacture of for tea cases, 114

  Shorea robusta, 114, 521

  Shier (Dr.), his opinion on cassava starch, 370
    analysis of the plantain, 323
    on the starch producing plants, 331

  Shea butter, 538

  Shiraz tobacco, 613

  Sicily oil, 531

  Siam gamboge, 639
    pepper produced in, 422
    indigo found wild in, 476
    exports of cardamoms, 419

  Sidu lanceolata, 574

  Sugar, obtained from the palm tree, 314
    made from millet, 306

  Simaruba amara, 643

  Singapore, produce of gambier in, 501
    exports of sago, 318
    nutmeg trade of, 413
    pepper grown in, 423, 424, 427
    nutmeg trees in, 400
    produce of mace, 414
    extent of clove culture in, 399

  Sinapis, species of, yielding oil, 512

  Silica, essential for wheat soils, 240

  Singhara nuts, 378

  Sinde, culture of rice in, 293

  Smith (Dr.), his experiments in tea culture in America, 95