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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 23

b. Moorva, Marool, or Bow-string Hemp (Sanseviera zeylanica)

b. Moorva, Marool, or Bow-string Hemp (Sanseviera zeylanica).

This plant supplies a fibre in point of strength and other qualities well calculated, when properly prepared, to compete with the "Manilla hemp" of the Philippine Islands.

734.Moorva, Sanseviera zeylanica, valued at £36 per ton, Madras.