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PHILIPPINE FIBER PLANTS 



white, occur in axillary or terminal clusters, and are about 2 

 centimeters in length. The fruit is a small, black, fleshy berry. 

 This species has been reported only from Benguet. 



LIST OF SPECIES USED FOR VARIOUS PURPOSES 



The following list gives the principal wild species which are 

 employed in making different articles. No attempt has been 

 made to include ordinary uses of the cultivated species. The 

 bulletins on bamboos and palms should also be consulted, as 

 fibers from these plants are not included in the present bulletin. 



BAGS 

 Musa text ills 

 Pandanns radicans 

 Pandamis simplex 

 Scirpus grossuB 

 Typh a a ng us tifo Ha 



BASKETS 



Agave cantala 

 Dendrohium crumenatiim 

 Donax cannaeformis 

 Dryopteris ptey^oides 

 Epipremnum spp. 

 Flagellaria indica 

 Gleichenia linearis 

 Lyg odium spp. 

 Musa textilis 

 Neph rolepis hirsutula 

 Pandanus copelandii 

 Pandamis luzonensis 

 Pandanus radicans 

 Pandanus simplex 

 Pandanus tectorius 

 Pericampylus glaucus 

 Path OS spp. 

 Raphidophora spp. 

 Rhynchospora corymhosa 

 Scirpus grossus 

 Stenochlaena pahistris 

 Typha angustifolia 



BELTS 



Gleichenia linearis 

 Musa textilis 



BOXES 



L 



'ium spp. 



BROOMS 



Andropogon zizanioides 

 Malvastrum coromandelinum 



Oryza sativa 

 Phragmites karka 

 Phragmites vulgaris 

 Saccharum spontaneum 

 Thysanolaena maxima 



CORDAGE 



Ab7'oma fastuosu 

 Ahrus precatorius 

 Agelaea everettii 

 Allaeanthus glaber 

 Alphitonia excelsa 

 Aniomum sp. 

 Anamirta cocculus 

 Artocarpus communis 

 Artoca7'pus Integra 

 Artocarpus rubrovenia 

 Bauhinia cumingiana 

 Boehmeria nivea 

 Bombax ceiba 



Bom bycidendron vidalianum 

 Columbia blancoi 

 Columbia lanceolata 

 Columbia mollis 

 Commcrsonia bartr^amia 

 Cor chorus capsulayns 

 Cor chorus olitorius 

 Cordia cumingiana 

 Cordia myxa 

 Cyperus malaccensis 

 Donax cannaef ortnis 

 Elaeocarpus calomala 

 Ficus benjamina 

 Ficus forstenii 

 Ficus pachyphylla 

 Ficus palawanensis 

 Flagellaria indica 

 Gnetum gneynon 

 Gnetum indicum 

 Gnetum sp. 



