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tucumá Tucumá Fruit eatable.

jauarí Jauarí Nuts for lace-bobbin heads.

aculeatum Marayá None. Others with the same name have eatable fruit.

acaule Iú Bark of leaf-stalks for baskets.

humile Iú Fruit eatable.

Attalea

speciosa Uauassú Leaves for thatch.

excelsa Urucurí Fruit burnt for smoking rubber.

spectabilis Curúa Leaves for thatch.

Maximiliana

regia Inajá Fruit eatable.

Cocos

nucifera Coqueiro The Cocoa-nut; fruit eatable.

The genera of Palms found in America are thirty-six in number. Thirty-two of these are entirely confined to it, while only four are common to the Old and New Worlds, as shown in the following list:—

LIST OF THE AMERICAN GENERA OF PALMS. ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── Name of Genus. No. of species Species found in Species of mentioned in this America. American Genera Work. in the Old World. ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── Chamedorea 0 23 0 Hyospathe 0 1 0 Morenia 0 2 0 Kunthia 0 1 0 Leopoldinia 3 4 0 Euterpe 3 12 0 Œnocarpus 4 6 0 Oreodoxia 0 6 0 Reinhardtia 0 1 0 Iriartea 4 9 0 Ceroxylon 0 3 0 Raphia 1 1 2 Mauritia 7 8 0 Lepidocaryum 1 2 0 Geonoma 3 33 0 Manicaria 1 1 0 Copernicia 0 6 0 Brahea 0 2 0 Sabal 0 9 0 Trithrinax 0 2 0 Chamærops 0 2 6 Thrinax 0 8 0 Desmoncus 1 14 0 Bactris 9 46 0 Guilielma 1 3 0 Martinezia 0 4 0 Acrocomia 1 8 0 Astrocaryum 8 17 0 Elœis 0 1 1 Attalea 3 16 0 Maximiliana 1 3 0 Orbignia 0 3 0 Syagrus 0 5 0 Diplothemium 0 5 0 Jubæa 0 1 0 Cocos 1 17 1 ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── Totals 52 285 10 ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────

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TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES

1. Silently corrected obvious typographical errors and variations in spelling. 2. Retained archaic, non-standard, and uncertain spellings as printed. 3. Enclosed italics font in underscores.