Archive image from page 81 of A descriptive catalogue of useful. A descriptive catalogue of useful fiber plants of the world, including the structural and economic classifications of fibers descriptivecatal09dodg Year: 1897 74 USEFUL FIBER PLANTS OF THE WORLD. The stem is from 8 to 12 feet high, irregularly ringed, and armed with long, scattered 'black spines. The leaves are terminal and of moderate size, regularly pinnate, the leaflets spreading out uniformly in one plane, elongate, acute, with the terminal pair shorter and broader. The petioles and sheathing bases are thickly covered with l
Archive image from page 81 of A descriptive catalogue of useful. A descriptive catalogue of useful fiber plants of the world, including the structural and economic classifications of fibers descriptivecatal09dodg Year: 1897 74 USEFUL FIBER PLANTS OF THE WORLD. The stem is from 8 to 12 feet high, irregularly ringed, and armed with long, scattered 'black spines. The leaves are terminal and of moderate size, regularly pinnate, the leaflets spreading out uniformly in one plane, elongate, acute, with the terminal pair shorter and broader. The petioles and sheathing bases are thickly covered with long black spines generally directed downward, and often 8 inches long. The spadices grow from among the leaves and are simply branched and spiny, erect when in flower, but drooping with the fruit. The spathes are elongate, splitting open and deciduous. The fruit is of a moderate size, oval, of a yellowish color, and with a small quantity of rather juicy eatable pulp covering the seed. (J. B. Wallace.) This author also states that the cattle of the upper Amazon eat the fruit, which is hard and stony, wandering about for days in the forest to procure it . There is scant reference to its fiber. It is called the Murdrum in a pamphlet H distributed by the Brazilian com- mission, W. C. E., 1893, where it is stated that its fruit serves for food for cattle and the stems of its new leaves for braiding hats and making baskets. It is also mentioned by Orton. Astrocaryum tucuma. Tecuma Palm. The In the list of Brazilian fibers pub- lished by the Brazilian commission, W. C. E., lS93,theJauary () and the tueum (A. tucuma) are men- tioned as valuable fiber-producing plants. From A. tucuma 'the fiber is extracted for manufacture into hats, baskets, ropes, and other useful articles.'' In Bernardin's list the Tucum palm is given as Astrocaryum vulgare (which see), found in Guaya- quil, Guiana, and Trinidad. In the Official Guide of the Kew Mus. the Tecuma palm is given as A. tucuma,
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