 | Edward Balfour - India - 1871 - 1146 pages
...strong, white flax-like fibre, which the hill people obtain by plunging the plant into hot water ; to deprive it of its virulently stinging properties, and then peeling the stalks. The textile material so prepared is of great strength, and the Todawar use it as thread. It is worth... | |
 | Sir Clements Robert Markham - 1880 - 588 pages
...frequent all over the higher ranges of the Nilgiris. The bark yieMs a fine strong fibre, which the natives obtain by first boiling the whole plant, to deprive it of its virulently-stinging properties, and then peeling the stilks. The textile material thus obtained is... | |
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Neilgherries : the bark yields ' a fine, strong, white flax-like fibre, which the hill people obtain by plunging the plant into hot water ; to deprive it of its virulently stinging properties, and then peeling the stalks. 