Editing Leopoldinia major

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[[File:Leopoldinia_majorB.gif|frame|Figure 1. ''L. major'']]
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Tns Jara assu or "greater Jara" closely resembles the
last species, but it is considerably larger. The stem is
four inches in diameter and reaches thirty feet in height.
It is often much thicker at the bottom than in the upper
part, and has a greater proportion of the stem bare.
Thc leaves are very similar, but the spadices are larger,
and the fruit is also larger and much more abundant.
This tree occurs plentifully on the lakes and inlets of
the upper Rio Negro, but is not found at the mouth of
the river like the last species. It grows too at a lower
level, being often found with a part of the stem under
water.

The Indians collect the fruit in large quantities, and
by burning and washing extract a floury substance,
which they use as a substitute for salt when they cannot
procure that article. They assert positively that the
smaller species of Jara will not yield the same product;
but perhaps this may be only because the fruit is less
abundant, and they do not take the trouble to collect it.
 
Coarse Portugal salt is used in the Rio Negro, and
among the Indiana in the upper part of the river serves
as a circulating medium, about a pound of it being
reckoned equivalent to a day's work. The supply however
is very uncertain, and there are many distant
tribes which it scarcely ever reaches; and it is among
them that the substitute is manufactured from the fruit
of the Jara. It is doubtful, however whether it contains
any true salt, for it is described as being more
bitter than saline in taste; yet with this alone to season
their fish and cassava the Indians enjoy almost perfect
health. Perhaps, therefore, mineral salt may not be such
a necessary of life as we are accustomed to consider it.

===Extracted from: ===
'''''Palm Trees of the Amazon'','''
Alfred Russel Wallace   
Pub: John van Voorst; 1853


===External Links:===
[https://powo.science.kew.org/results?q=Leopoldinia%20major Kew], 
[https://www.palmweb.org//?q=cdm_dataportal/taxon/c3bfa242-90c0-4c71-9970-eff6966ca997 PalmWeb],
[https://www.jstor.org/action/doBasicSearch?Query=Leopoldinia+major JSTOR],
[https://www.trebrown.com/plant_info.php?species=Leopoldinia+major Trebrown]
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[https://www.flickr.com/search/?q=Leopoldinia+major Flickr],
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