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GUAXUMA. 



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dczeiro (another palm) cannot become of general service 

 to society, and much less can they be rendered applicable 

 to the use of shipping, from the difficulty with which 

 they are to be obtained, and from many other circum- 

 stances. 



Section 2d. 



Carrapixo, Urena Sinuata : — Lin. Syst. Veget. edit. 

 14. 



Class, Monadelphia. Order, Polyandria. 



The bark of this plant is with ease separated by means 

 of maceration for a fortnight; and from it cords are made 

 for many purposes, and although they are not very 

 strong, they are much esteemed for slinging hammocks ; 

 when the operation of macerating is made in clean water, 

 the fibre becomes pretty well whitened. The plant is 

 not cultivated ; and in the neighbourhood of Paratibi it 

 grows spontaneously, in such quantities that the inhabi- 

 tants of that village gather it for sale. I have heard that 

 it grows in abundance at Rio de Janeiro, and is known 

 there by the name of guaxuma. The name of carrapixo 

 is likewise given in Pernambuco to some other plants, of 

 which the seeds stick to whatever chances to touch them, 

 by means of small ears which are thorny ; for this reason 

 the plant of which we are treating is sometimes called 

 carrapixinho, for the purpose of distinguishing it. 



Guaxuma do Mangue, Hibiscus Pernambucensis : 

 — Arrud. Cent. Plant. Pern. 



Class, Monadelphia. Order, Polyandria. 



Gen. Char. Calyx double, the outside divided into 

 many segments, the inside into five segments, campanu- 

 late. Capsule quinque-locular ; many seeds. 



Spec. Char. Leaves cordate, entire ; stem fruit-bear- 

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