_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

Algiers, tobacco culture in, 615

Alizaine, 478

Alkanet root, 442

Allspice, the common name for pimento, 430

Almond oil, 510, 533

Aloes, statistics of exports from the Cape, 632
varieties of, 628

_Alpinia Galanga_, 419
_Cardamomum_, 419
_racemosa_, 414

_Alstraemeria pallida_, 330

_Althea rosea_, 442

_Amaranthus gangiticus_, 434

American arrowroot, 352
flour, countries to which, shipped, 223

Americans consume most coffee, 40

Amboyna wood, 439

_Amomum_, species of, 419
_Zingiber_, 414

_Anacardium occidentale_, 495, 521

Analyses, various, of tobacco, 592-93

Analysis of the coffee plant, 49
ashes of the coffee tree, 43
of catechu, 579
of Havana tobacco, 591, 615
of other varieties, 615
of oil cake, 546
of soils, 617
of soils, not so requisite abroad, 7
of the sugar cane, by Dr. Evans, 154
of sugar soils in the East, 172

_Anethum graveolens_, 376
_Sowa_, seeds of, 434

Angola weed, 486

Aniseed, 437

Antigua arrowroot, statistics of, 353
cost of cultivating sugar, 189

Ants, remedy for, 181

_Anchusa tinctoria_, 442

Andropogon, species of, 572

_Anileria_, a manufactory for indigo, 460

Apricot oil, 511, 536

Apios, 355, 371

Aquilaria, species of, 439

Arghel leaves, 647

_Arachis hypogoea_, 513

_Arenga saccharifera_, the _gomutus saccharifera_ of Rumphius, 136, 314

Areometer, an instrument for testing oil, 532

_Arbor alba_, 566

Areca nuts, value of the exports from Ceylon, 579
palm, 577

_Argemone Mexicana_, 511, 521, 626

Arnotto, 447

Arpent, a French land measure, about one-seventh less than an acre, 251

Arracan, exports of rice from, 297

_Arracacha esculenta_, 355, 375

Arrack, 556
used to flavor tobacco, 621

Arroba, a Spanish weight of 25 lbs., the fourth part of a quintal.

Arrowroot, Benzon's