EXPLANATION OF THE ILLUSTRATIONS 
Prater XXXVIII. A. Tapping Hevea with the je- 
bong knife on Sitio Irapuru near Baturité, Ceara. 
This panel has been tapped for an entire season. 
B. Smoked sheets of oriental Hevea rubber recov- 
ered from the sea. C. Tapping Hancornia near 
Axixa, Maranhao. Even the branches are tapped 
and some trees support as many as twenty-five cups. 
PLrate XXXIX. A. Preparing rubber from latex of 
Hancornia near Axixa, Maranhao. B. Serra do Ma- 
chado workers filling their bags with the fine dust 
used to line the holes in which the latex is col- 
lected. 
Pirate XL. A. Native women making a cup from 
an araticum (? Annona coriacea Mart.) leaf for gath- 
ering the latex, near Cascavel, Ceara. B. Serra do 
Machado manisoba tree tapped with a small hatchet 
on the saliences of the trunk. The latex flows into 
a dust-lined hole. C. One year old planting of 
Piaui manisoba at Belmonte, Pernambuco, ready 
for tapping. D. Lining a hole with dust to receive 
the latex flow, at Belmonte, Pernambuco. 
Pirate XLI. A. Inserting a tin cup ina slit below 
the pair of tapping cuts in a manisoba near Maran- 
guape, Ceara. B. Drying coagulated cup-lumps of 
manisoba rubber at Maranguape, Ceara. C. Brava, 
or wild manisoba near Maranguape, Ceara, which 
has been hacked to see if it will yield latex. D. 
Manisoba trees in the Serra de Uruburetama near 
Iracuba, Ceara. 
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