| Plate | ||
|---|---|---|
| Map showing the distribution of Palms in America (Frontispiece) | [1] | |
| Fruits of Palms, containing, | ||
| 1. Raphia tædigera. | ||
| 2. Mauritia flexuosa. | ||
| 3. Manicaria saccifera. | ||
| 4. Lepidocaryum tenue (all of the natural size) | [2] | |
| 5. Astrocaryum tucuma. | ||
| 6. Leopoldinia pulchra. | ||
| Fruits of Palms, containing, | ||
| 1. Attalea spectabilis. | ||
| 2. Maximiliana regia. | ||
| 3. Spathe of Maximiliana regia (reduced) | [3] | |
| 4. Guilielma speciosa (all of the natural size). | ||
| Leopoldinia pulchra | [4] | |
| —— major | [5] | |
| —— piassába | [6] | |
| Euterpe oleracea | [7] | |
| —— catinga | [8] | |
| Œnocarpus baccába | [9] | |
| —— batawa (with fruit) | [10] | |
| —— batawa (with arrow and quiver) | [10], [11] | |
| Iriartea exorhiza | [12] | |
| Roots of an Iriartea | [13] | |
| Iriartea ventricosa (with a fruit) | [14] | |
| —— setigera (with fruit and Gravatana) | [15] | |
| Raphia tædigera | [16] | |
| Mauritia flexuosa (with a leaf) | [17] | |
| —— carana | [18] | |
| —— aculeata | [19] | |
| —— gracilis | [20] | |
| —— pumila | [21] | |
| Lepidocaryum tenue | [22] | |
| Geonoma multiflora (with fruit) | [23] | |
| —— paniculigera | [24] | |
| —— rectifolia (with fruit) | [25] | |
| Manicaria saccifera (with a spathe) | [26] | |
| Desmoncus macroacanthus (with a fruit) | [27] | |
| Bactris pectinata (with a fruit) | [28] | |
| —— —— n.s. | [29] | |
| —— elatior | [30] | |
| —— —— n.s. (with a leaflet) | [31] | |
| —— macrocarpa (with a fruit and leaflet) | [32] | |
| —— tenuis (with spadix) | [33] | |
| —— simplicifrons | [34] | |
| —— integrifolia | [35] | |
| Guilielma speciosa (with Uaupes Indian’s house) | [36] | |
| Acrocomia lasiospatha (with fruit) | [37] | |
| Astrocaryum murumurú (with fruit and part of leaf) | [38] | |
| —— gynacanthum | [39] | |
| —— vulgare | [40] | |
| —— tucuma (with young plant) | [41] | |
| —— jauari | [42] | |
| —— aculeatum | [43] | |
| —— acaule (with spadix and fruit) | [44] | |
| —— humile (with fruit) | [45] | |
| Attalea speciosa | [46] | |
| Maximiliana regia | [47] | |
| Cocos nucifera | [48] | |
Pl. II. PALM FRUITS
W. Fitch lith. Ford & West Imp.
1. Raphia tædigera.
2. Mauritia flexuosa.
3. Manicaria saccifera.
4. Lepidocaryum tenue.
5. Astrocaryum tucuma.
6. Leopoldinia pulchra.
Pl. III. PALM FRUITS.
W. Fitch lith. Ford & West. Imp.
1. Attalea spectabilis.
2. Maximiliana regia.
3. Spathe of Maregia.
4. Guilielma speciosa.
5. Iriartea exorhiza.
PALM TREES OF THE AMAZON
AND THEIR USES.
INTRODUCTION.
Palms are endogenous or ingrowing plants, belonging to the same great division of the Vegetable Kingdom as the Grasses, Bamboos, Lilies and Pineapples, and not to that which contains all our English forest trees. They are perennial, not annual like most of the above-named plants, and probably reach a great age. Their stems are simple or very rarely forked, slender, erect, and cylindrical, not tapering as in most other trees; they are hardest on the outside, and are marked more or less distinctly with scars or rings, marking the situation of the fallen leaves.
The leaves are generally terminal, forming a bunch or head at the summit of the tree; they are of very large size, have long petioles or footstalks, and are alternately placed on the stem. In shape they are pinnate or flabellate, or rarely simple, sheathing at the base, without stipules; and they have a plicate vernation, or are folded up lengthways before they open. The margins of the sheathing bases of the leaf-stalks are often fibrous, and give out a variety of singular processes.