. A descriptive catalogue of useful fiber plants of the world, including the structural and economic classifications of fibers. Fibers. 78 USEFUL FIBER PLANTS OF THE WORLD. Bacaba (Braz.). See (Enocarpus bacdba. Bacona and Vacona (Alaurin. Pandanus utilis. Bactris setosa. Endogen. Palmce. A slender palm. This genus of palms is found in the West Indies, Brazil, and other tropical regions of South America. STRUCTURAL Fiber.—The fiber of the leaves, known as Tecun (or Tecum) both in Peru and Brazil, is very strong, and is used "for fishing nets and lines" (Savorgnan), and "for hats
. A descriptive catalogue of useful fiber plants of the world, including the structural and economic classifications of fibers. Fibers. 78 USEFUL FIBER PLANTS OF THE WORLD. Bacaba (Braz.). See (Enocarpus bacdba. Bacona and Vacona (Alaurin. Pandanus utilis. Bactris setosa. Endogen. Palmce. A slender palm. This genus of palms is found in the West Indies, Brazil, and other tropical regions of South America. STRUCTURAL Fiber.—The fiber of the leaves, known as Tecun (or Tecum) both in Peru and Brazil, is very strong, and is used "for fishing nets and lines" (Savorgnan), and "for hats, ropes, hammocks, ; (Dorca). The species appears in Bernardin's Catalogue with the common name Tecum, the fiber of which is "em- ployed for hammocks and ; See also Astrocaryum tucuma and A. vulgare. B. maraja is another Bra- zilian species mentioned in Notes on the State of Para. W. C. E., 1893, as supplying a useful fiber. Bactris integrifolia. A Brazilian species found on the upper Rio Negro. The stem is hardly so thick as the little finger, and 9 or 10 feet high, smooth and distinctly jointed. The leaves are four or five in number, terminal, entire, three or four times as long as they are wide, and not very deeply bifid at the end. The petioles and their sheathing bases are thickly set with long, flat black spines. The spadices are very small, erect, and two-l>ranched, growing from among the persistent sheathing bases below the leaves. The spathes are small, erect, and persistent, clothed with adpressed brown spines. The fruit is small and globular and of a black color. ( Wallace.) Not particularly interesting as a fiber plant, but serves to illus- trate the group. (See fig. 30.) Refer to Guilielma s2)eciosa. Bagasse. The refuse of sugar cane after roller crushing, before the diffusion process had been adopted. The following is from a report by the author issued in 1879: "Amongotherfibrous products named in reply to the circular sent to
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