Pittier quotes Ernst as saying that the stems of this plant 
are the best and most durable of all cordage materials. 
In his list of fibre plants of the World (U.S. Dept. Agric. 
Fiber Invest. Rept. 9 (1899) 149), Dodge makes no 
mention of the use of Desmoncus in basketry, but he re- 
ports that the Brazilian D.macroacanthos Martius is the 
source of a useful fiber. 
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