Leaves - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 31992 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 200.00 POACEAE Hyparrhenia hirta | Entry Book Number | 260.1882 | |
| Artefact Name | Leaves | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | India | TDWG Region | India | ||
| Parts Held | Leaves | Geography Description | Tamil Nadu, Asia-Tropical, Indian Subcontinent, India, Madras | ||
| Uses | LeavesUse: User: Not defined | TDWG use | |||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
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| Notes: | Label source: Extracts from letter from T Routledge on the subject of the above paper making. 'So far as paper making materials is concerned I consider the material valueless. That is to say in the face of other fibrous products which must abound in or n, ear the same locality, Rice straw or straw of any other cereals much superior. Practically speaking the 'hay' is valueless for paper making in this country. It might be made into a coarse wrapping paper in India although other better fibrous materials abo, und.' The last sample I sent you gave 50 per cent of yield but this first which I sent you in a letter was deprived of the glutinous matter the yield being thus reduced to 25 per cent. | ||||