man I car I a

[From Latin manice = the long sleeves of a tunic, serving for gloves. From the appearance of the spathe.] Bot.: A genus of palms, tribe Bora ese, and that section of it characterized by having pinnated leaves. When young, however, they are generally entire. Man i car i a saccifera , the Bu u, is a palm from the lower part of the Amazon. Its stem is about fifteen or twenty feet, its leaves are occasionally thirty feet long. They are used by the Indians for thatching their huts, and the spathes are made into bags, whence the appropriate specific name saccifera.