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Plate 23. Mauritia flexuosa, Morriche Palm, or Selebioian tree of Life of 
the Guarumo Indians, on the inundated islands of the Orinoco, very valuable 
for its fibrous leaves and foliaceous fibres. 
ate 24. Bactris minor, Cane palm; said to be a brother species of the: 
Ticu palm of Brazil, whose leaves ield s superior substitutes for flax and - 
hemp to an. ignorant "and indolent popnlatign The botanical name given - 
by Walsh is the Bactris Acanthoca arpos. H. P. 
Wasurneton, D. C., March, 1838. 
