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Identifier: palmtree00mood
Title: The palm tree
Year: 1864 (1860s)
Authors: Moody, Sophy
Subjects: Palms Trees in the Bible
Publisher: London : T. Nelson and Sons, Paternoster Row Edinburgh, and New York
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coloured with concentric yel-lowish stripes, like a peacocks tail. Mauritia gracilis (or Caranai, in native lan-guage), grows on the edge of the waters of RioNegro, and is distinguished for its beauty. Itsslender stem, from twenty to thirty feet high, isringed Avith spines; it has drooping leaves of an ex-quisite silvery green, and clusters of rich brown fruit. A very singular looking smooth, stemmed species,allied to Mauritia flexuosa, was lately discovered byWallace, growing in the district of Rio Negro andthe Upper Orinoco, named by him Mauritia Ca-rama, its native name being Carana. Its singularappearance is occasioned by the immense quantityof fibre which clothes the bases of the leaf stalks,giving to the tree a bearded look. As yet this fibreseems not to be applied to any use. The entireleaves are preferred to all other for thatch from theirgreat durability ; but the leaf fibres, or epidermis,are not used, as with the Miriti, for making cordage.* * Wallaces Palms of the Amazon.
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