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No. 34.] OCTOBER. [1889. 
CXIII.—BAHIA PIASSAVA. 
(Attalea funifera, Mart.) 
A valuable fibre, got used in this country under the name of 
Bahia Piassava, is obtained from the leaf-stalks of a Brazilian 
known as Attalea funi fera, Mart. This has a wide distribution 
in the lowlands of PM il, and is found M the ge o 
wie Strode in aomi lat. 18?. 
ava, which is exported from the port of that name, is 
slightly diffe rent in texture and colour from Bahia Piassava, and is 
derived from another palm, Leopoldinia Piassaba, Wallace. Specimens 
of both Bahia and Para Piassava, together with appliances used in the 
industry, as well as finished articles, are showr in the Kew Museum 
No. II. The excellent series of Bahia Piassava is shown in Case 
. 62. One of the earliest notices of Bahia Piassava, and probably 
the first where the plant yielding it is authoritatively determined, is 
contained in article in Hooker’s Journal of Botany and Kew 
Garden rbi LM vol. i. (1849), pp. 121-123. In this notice Sir 
Wm. Hooker 
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