A descriptive catalogue of useful fiber plants of the world : including the structural and economic classifications of fibers . esentedto the United Sates Department ofAgriculture, It was stated that the liber is obtained from the young leaves and is readily secured,as it lies just under the epidermis of the leaf, Avhich is so exceedingly thin that it iseasily rubbed off, leaving the fiber white and clean. Its strength was claimed to beequal to llax. The filaments are so fine that it has received the name of vegetablewool. In the specimens received by the Department the fiber had not been clea
A descriptive catalogue of useful fiber plants of the world : including the structural and economic classifications of fibers . esentedto the United Sates Department ofAgriculture, It was stated that the liber is obtained from the young leaves and is readily secured,as it lies just under the epidermis of the leaf, Avhich is so exceedingly thin that it iseasily rubbed off, leaving the fiber white and clean. Its strength was claimed to beequal to llax. The filaments are so fine that it has received the name of vegetablewool. In the specimens received by the Department the fiber had not been cleaned,yet in some portions the l)undles of iilamcnts Avere clear and white, showing thefiber to the best advantage. This was sufficiently strong for fine weaving, and fromthe ease with which it is separated might be obtained very cheaply, Its nse inBrazil is for the manufacture of nets, fish lines, and hammocks. Fig. 27 shows ayoung and an old tree. While autiiorities .agree that Tncitm is .-in .istrorarj/iim, Jlarlria srtosii is mentionedas the Tkciiiii in a volume on the resources of Brazil distributed at the Philadelphia. =;i^^f^ Fin. 27.—Til. :i palm. Istrocanjiirir tiiciiina. DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE. 75 exbil)ition of 1870, and Afitrocaryum is called tlie Tucunutn. In IJiTnardiiis listBaciris is called Tevuii. Tlio Kcw Mus. Guide names ./. (tcnlealitm as the (Iri (h-i.* Sjyichneiis.—Mus. U. S. Pei)t. Ag. Astrocaryum vtilgare. The Tfcum Palm. This species grows on the dry forest land of the Amazon and Rio Negro. Culti-vated by the Indians Avhen not met with in a wild state. (See fig. 28). Stkuctural Fiber.—Tucuin thread, derived from the unopened leaves, isused chiefly for bowstrings and fishingnets; employed also for hiunmoeks, whichfetch a high figure in Rio Janeiro. By the native method of extraction only about2 ounces of fiber can be extracted in a day, even by an expert manipulator. Savorg-nan states that the leaves yield a fiber ofgreat strength, which is made
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