n, 422
cost of sugar cultivation in, 187, 189
tea culture in, 94
progress of sugar culture in, 150
clove culture of, 398, 401
black beans, 304

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 me