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14. Rope having a mean girth of 24 millimeters, made of retted 
Sida acuta bast. 
15. Rope having a mean girth of 30 millimeters, made of crude Thes- 
pesia lampas bast. 
PLATE IV. PHILIPPINE BAST-FIBER ROPES 
Fig. 1. Rope having a mean girth of 21 millimeters, made of a mixture, 
in about equal proportions, of crude strips of Urena lobata and 
Corchorus olitorius bast. 
2. Rope having a mean girth of 48 millimeters, made of crude strips 
of Columbia blancoi bast. 
3. Rope having a mean girth of 22 millimeters, made of crude strips 
of Corchorus olitorius bast. 
4. Rope having a mean girth of 24 millimeters, made of crude strips 
of Grewia bilamellata bast. 
5. Rope having a mean girth of 20 millimeters, made of crude strips 
of Grewia eriocarpa bast. 
6. Rope having a@ mean girth of 36 millimeters, made of crude strips 
of Grewia multiflora bast. 
7. Rope having a mean girth of 39 millimeters, made of crude strips 
of Allaeanthus glaber bast. 
8. Rope having a mean girth of 19 millimeters, made of crude strips 
of young Artocarpus communis bast. 
9. Rope having a mean girth of 30 millimeters, made of crude strips 
of old Artocarpus communis bast. 
10. Rope having a mean girth of 23 millimeters, made of crude strips 
of Ficus benjamina bast. 
11. Rope having a mean girth of 22 millimeters, made of crude strips 
of Ficus forstenii bast. 
12. Rope having a mean girth of 22 millimeters, made of crude strips 
of Ficus pachyphylla bast. 
13. Rope having a mean girth of 19 millimeters, made of crude strips 
of Ficus palawanensis bast. 
PLATE V. PHILIPPINE BAST- AND MISCELLANEOUS-FIBER ROPES 
Fig. 1. Rope having a mean girth of 38 es serge made of crude strips 
of Cordia cumingiana bast. 
2. Rope having a mean girth of 25 emcee. made of crude strips 
of Cordia myzxa bast. 
3. Rope having a mean girth of 18 millimeters, made of crude strips . 
of Gnetum sp. bast. 
4. Rope having a mean girth of 26 millimeters, made of sulle strips 
of Bombaz ceiba bast. 
5. Rope having a mean girth of 26 millimeters, made of crude strips 
of Trema orientalis bast. : 
6. Rope having a mean girth of 29 millimeters, made of crude strips 
of Goniothalamus amuyon bast. 
7. Rope (two strands only) having a mean girth of 46 millimeters, 
made of a species of bamboo (Dendrocalamus merrillianus). 
8. Rope having a mean girth of 44 millimeters, made of the entire 
stem of a vine Laois cocculus) . 
