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botanists do not agree whether this pandan constitutes a distinct 
species or is only a more or less cultivated variety of t mon 
sea-shore pandan. No further ae except the removal 
of its spines is practised. The are sometimes bleache 
but with rather indifferent success rif gus 
bleached would be excellent for “Panama” hats. This screw- 
pine is used — by Filipinos for hats and for their i 
quality, of m: 
A lens with coarse leaves is Pandanus utilissimus. The 
leaves of this screw-pine must be rolled under heavy logs before 
they can be used. The strips are utilized for mats and telescope 
baskets, and are exported in a quantities from Laguna 
Province to the Manila market. 
Another pandan of economic < teenage used nage in 
the southeastern provinces of Luzon, is is Pandanus simplex. 
same ie as the latter. 
Among the pandans used reine are P. copelandti, P. 
dubius, 2. luzonensis and P. ra 
RASSES 
Bamboo, especially the cultivated species Bambusa blumeana, 
plays a highly important role in the daily life of the Filipino 
people. The majority of the houses in the Philippines are built 
of bamboo. Long hollow bamboo tubes serve for carrying 
drinking water from river or well. The aborigines (Negritos) 
cook rice, their principal food, in green sappy bamboo over an 
open fire. The rafts that carry the products up and down the 
river are made of bamboo. So in a thousand and one ways 
bamboo enters eons into the daily economic life of the 
employed in the manufacture of hats. e bamboo is felled 
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any branches. At this age the bamboo is perhaps fifty or more 
feet high. Only the middle internodes of the stem, fifteen to 
