Maximiliana Regia
An Amazonian palm called Inaja. The spathes
are so hard that, when filled with water, they will stand the
fire, and are sometimes used by the Indians as cooking utensils.
The Indians who prepare the kind of rubber called bottle rubber,
make use of
the hard stones of the fruit as fuel for smoking and
drying the successive layers of milky juice as it is applied to
the mold upon which the bottles are formed. The outer husk, also,
yields a kind of saline flour used for seasoning their food.
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