Part 24

Botanical Name. Native Name. Uses.

Leopoldinia

pulchra Jará Stem used for fencing, rafters, &c.

major Jará assú Fruit for making salt.

piassaba Piassába Fibre for cordage, brooms, &c.; leaves for thatching; fruit eatable.

Euterpe

oleracea Assaí Fruit for making a drink; stem for rafters, &c.

catinga Assaí de Catinga Fruit for making a drink.

Œnocarpus

baccaba Baccába Fruit makes a drink and oil; leaves for thatching.

batawá Patawá Fruit makes a drink; spinous processes used for making arrows.

disticha Baccába Leaves for thatching.

minor Baccába miri Fruit makes a drink.

Iriartea

exorhiza Pashiúba Stem split for floors and ceilings, &c.; air-roots for graters.

ventricosa Pashiúba Stem split for lances, harpoons, barriguda floors, &c.; swollen part of stem for canoes.

setigera Pashiúba miri Stem hollowed for making blowtubes or Gravatánas.

Raphia

tædigera Jupatí Leaf-stalks split for making boxes, partitioning houses, doors, &c.

Mauritia

flexuosa Mirití Fruit makes a drink; fibres of twisted into string for hammocks, &c.; leaf-stalks as the last.

aculeata Caranaí Fruit makes a drink.

gracilis Caranaí Fruit makes a drink.

pumila Caranaí Not known.

caraná Caraná Leaves good for thatch; leaf-stalks used as those of Raphia tædigera.

Lepidocaryum

tenue Caranaí do Mato None.

Geonoma