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A tall pinnate-leaved Brazilian palm (Maximiliana regia) with immense prickle-tipped spathes used for baskets, tubs, and other containers.

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  • Meantime fires are made with the nuts of several species of palms -- the inaja and others.
  • Bates describes a tame cutea, or an agouti, which he found feeding in the neighbourhood of a village, nibbling the fallen fruits of the inaja-palm.
  • The inaja-palm, of various species, produces pellucid pods, from one to two feet in length, containing a row of beans -- enveloped in white cottony pulp -- grateful to...
  • Rounding a point, we observed a hut beneath a grove of inaja palms; their leaves springing almost from the ground, and spreading slightly out from the slender stem, so...
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