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and a model, representing native Indian women pounding 

 chunam or lime. Water buckets are also shown, made of the 

 spathe of the palm from Perak, caps worn by the natives of the 

 Tulu caste, also from the spathe, and fans from Formosa and 

 China. 



This Case contains leaves, spadices, and fruits of several 

 unimportant species of palms, including Cyrtostachys Renda, 

 Bl., Ptychospermajilifera, Wendl., Oncospermajilamentosum, 

 Bl. Fine spadices and fruits of Euterpe edulis, Mart., and 

 E. oleracettf Mart., known as the Cabbage Palm. Also Moun- 

 tain Cabbage Pickle from the fresh succulent spadix, and 

 baskets made of the leaves from British Guiana. 



No. 50. Flambeau, made of gum of Biirsera gummifera, 

 enclosed in a portion of the spathe of Euterpe oleracea, Mart., 

 from Dominica. 



The upper part of this Case contains spadices of (Enocarpus 

 distlchusj Mart., (E. Bataua, Mart., and other species. 



Observe photographs of the Royal Palm, Oreodoxa regia, 

 Kunth., a West Indian palm ; also a photograph of the cele- 

 brated Avenue in the Botanic Gardens, Rio de Janeiro. [See 

 North Gallery, Nos. 63 and 825.] Samples of fibre and 

 wood of this species as well as of 0. oleracea, Mart., are also 

 shown. A stem of this latter is exhibited in a Case in the 

 passage opposite the doorway of this room, being too large to 

 be included here. 



No. 51. Quivers made of leaves of Atfalea sp., containing 

 poisoned arrows, used in the Gravatanas or Blow-pipes of Brazil. 

 " The sheathing bases of the petioles [of (Enocarpus Bataua] 

 give out from their margins numerous long spinous processes 

 of a very singular character. They are from eighteen inches to 

 three feet long, of a black colour, flattish, and generally broken 

 or fibrous at the point. They are much sought after by the 

 Indians, who use them to make arrows for their * Gravatanas,' or 

 Blow-pipes." One of these latter, made of the stem of Iriartea 

 setigerUf Mart., from the Rio dos Puros, Brazil, is shown in 

 Case 18, Room No. 2. The arrows are sharply pointed 

 at the end, which is covered with curari poison for three or 

 four inches down, and slightly notched, so that it may break 

 off" in the wound. 



Note combs worn by the Uaupe Indians, made of these 

 woody spines, bound together with strips of the flower stalk of 

 Gynerium saccharoideSy H.B. 



