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Show A Tree That I Put to Mj I u-. Tb camanba is certainly a wonderful tree, according to report made to the state department by Consul Burke, of Bahia. It grows in the northern state of Brazil near the Amazon river. Every part of it root, rootlet.branchand trunk is available; it is indispensable for the natives in building and roofing their huta, making fences, etc., while the article. rnmln f it liivlll Wuu rood, light and medicine. It is a specie of palm tree and grows in dry, sandy soil. The bulb(,the sir.3 depending upon the aizo of the tree) is strongly farinaceous, and when dried and ground produces a kind of farischa used for food by the natives, while the rootlets of the bulb are nsed for medicine, possessing strong cathartic cathar-tic property. The trunk, while the tree is young, contains a soft oleaginous substance, something like marrow: this is guod food for cattle, sheep, goats and hogs. After the tree attains a growth of several years the trunk becomes very hard and eon then be used for building purposes. The lower part of the branches, which grow to a length of 8 to lOor 12 feet, are chiefly used for fences. They are wide aud flat at the bottom and tapering toward the top, with short, hard and very sharp thorns at the edges, in appearance not unlike the mouth of a saw fish. The fence made from this material is very strong. The leafy part of the branch, when cut and sun dried, gives an exudation which appears on the fan like leaf or blade. It is a tenacious substance possessing pos-sessing properties very similar to beeswax. bees-wax. This wax is extensively used for making candles. The leaf or blado has a fiber from which hats, mats, baskets, rope, brooms, dusters, etc., are made. When the exudation is scraped from the blados of palm the branches are used for roofing huts and small houses and for protecting brick walls from the fierce rays of the sun, as well as from the rain. The fruit of the tree is sweet and palatable. palata-ble. The kernel or seed is pounded to powder and nsed in infusion in place of coffee, Chicago Herald. |