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Philippine Journal of Science 
1919 
Color . — In determining the color of the bast fibers discussed 
in this paper the color nomenclature of Ridgway was used. 
Length of hast strips . — In order to ascertain the average 
length of the bast strips, or ribbons, constituting the ropes 
tested, a 6-meter section was untwisted and measured. In Table 
VII are given the maximum, minimum, and mean lengths of 
the strips of bast from twenty-one species. 
Table VII. — Length of crude bast strips composing some of the ropes tested. 
Length. 
Mean of 
five 
Fiber. 
Maxi- 
mum, 
Mini- 
mum. 
strips 
meas- 
ured. 
Abromafdstuosa; unretted bast 
mm, 
912 
mm, 
366 
mm, 
675 
Pterocymbium tincto'riuyn 
3, 113 
305 
1,889 
3,010 
3,066 
277 
1, 890 
Sterculia oblongata 
184 
2, 111 
Sterculia foetida 
1,036 
235 
767 
Sterculia stipularis; forma 
1,248 
206 
980 
Bombyeidendron vidalianum 
990 
300 
667 
Thespesia lampas 
1,556 
642 
1,203 
Urena lobata 
1, 960 
1,668 
176 
1, 118 
Corckorus olitorlus 
198 
1,186 
Grewia eriocarpa 
1, 692 
290 
1,004 
Grewia bilamellata 
1,343 
346 
1,060 
Grewia multiflora 
2,476 
1,482 
2, 104 
Artocarpus communis 
927 
160 
610 
Ficus henjamina 
1, 388 
1, 053 
1, 227 
Ficus forstenii 
1,096 
1, 884 
346 
738 
Ficus pachyphylla 
239 
838 
Ficus palawanensis 
1,240 
326 
821 
851 
239 
603 
Bombax ceiba 
1,695 
1,063 
303 
967 
295 
794 
The strongest rope, Gnetum sp., is made of bast strips having 
the shortest length, which shows that even with these lengths 
the resistance to slipping is greater than the actual strength 
of the fiber in the other cases. 
LOCAL PHILIPPINE NAMES 
Most of the local Philippine names of the species yielding 
bast fiber recorded in this paper were obtained from the de- 
scriptive labels accompanying botanical specimens in the Bureau 
“ Ridgway, R., Color Standards and Color Nomenclature. Published 
by the author in Washington, D. C. (1912). 
