How diverse, yet equally graceful, are the aspiring branches of the jagua and the drooping foliage of the cocoa, the shuttlecock-shaped crowns of the ubussú and the plumes of the jupati, forty feet in length.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Andes and the Amazon Across the Continent of South America] Reference

Now appears the miriti, or mauritia -- one of the most beautiful of its tribe, with pendent clusters of glossy fruit, and enormous spreading fan-like leaves cut into ribbons; the jupati, with plume-like leaves forty feet and upwards in length, graceful in the extreme, starting almost from the ground.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America] Reference