Narr. Trav. Amazon

abundant Acrocomia Amazon district Assai Astrocaryum ASTROCARYUM ACULEATUM Attalea Attalea spectabilis Baccaba Bactris batawa black spines branched and drooping Bussu Carana Catinga forests colour cordage cylindrical dense Desmoncus diameter Enocarpus erect feet high feet in height feet long Female flowers fibres fibrous flowers with six flowers with three fruit is represented fruit is small Ft PLATE genus Geonoma globular gravatana House at Kew inches Indians Iriartea Jara leaf leaf-stalks leaflets spreading leaves are large leaves are terminal Leopoldinia Leopoldinia piassaba Lingoa lofty Lower Amazon Male flowers Manicaria Mauritia flexuosa Mauritia vinifera midrib Miriti narrow native Orinoco ovate Palm House Pashiuba persistent petioles Piassaba pistil prickly produced pulp regularly pinnate ringed river rudimentary pistil sheathing bases simply branched six stamens slender smooth South America spadices grow spathe speciosa spiny stem terminal pair thatching thick thickly set three sessile stigmas tropic tucuma Uaupes Upper Amazon Upper Rio Negro woody young plants