284 
Para Piassava pe ee Piassaba, Wallace). Amazon 
Region; principal centre of the trade, Manaos, shipped from 
Para 
K.B. Add. Ser. 11. p. 250. 
Bahia ~ paral tub). funifera, Mart.). Brazil. Value, 
£46 to £50 a ton (19 
K.B. Add. iis. p. eh 
Liberia and French Guinea. Tt i also ‘enoern in the aes as 
‘* Lagos Bass.”? Value £30 to £32 a ton (1915) 
K.B. Add. Ser. ii. p. 228; 1910, p. 169. 
Madagascar Piassava (Dictyosperma fibrosum, Wright). 
Madagascar. Value, £45 to £60 per ton (1915). 
K.B. Add. Ser. ii. p. 227. 
‘These various Piassava fibres obtained from the signe 
bases of the leaves are used for making —— The palm 
rom which they are obtained are all growing wild in their 
respective localities and apparently not Panaie cultivation for 
fibre production. 
A similar fibre, classed as “‘ Piassaya’’ is obtained from the 
yer bases of the “Palmyra Palm ”’ oe flabellifer, 
L.). native of India, Ceylon and Tropical Africa, value £45 to 
£48 for good, £36 to £50 for dyed and sized, and also from 
the ‘‘ Kittool’’ or ‘* Kitool’’ Palm (Caryota urens) found in 
India, Ceylon, Malaya, etc. ‘The exports from India are not 
important and the fibre comes principally from Ceylon, this 
oo having supplied the Londen Market for more than 
ars 
Rafia or Raffia (Raphia pedunculata, Beauy.). A Madagascar 
Palm. This is the principal source, being the cuticle of the 
young leaves, dried; it has also been obtained from Raphia 
vinifera, of West Africa. 
K.B. Add. Ser. ii. p. 2382. 
Coir ses nucifera, L.). The fruit husk. 
n.—India and Ceylon, where the industry has been long 
deta Bike, Experiments have been made at Lagos in the pro- 
duction of this fibre (see A.B. Add. Ser. ii. Veg. Fibres, p. pegs 
The palm is common in all tropical Colonies, near the se 
K.B. Add. Ser. ii. p. 245. 
ea Grass ae aahen nivea, Gaud.) and Ramie or Rhea 
(Boehmeria nivea, Gau gprs Bast fibre. Native 
of China. - Under experiinent in India, and there is perhaps 
‘hardly a British Colony in which this fibre has not been u nder 
experiment during the past half century or so, but so far neil 
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