Crossword-Solution: CARLUDOVICA 11 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 19

The other chief articles of exportation are hides, cotton, "Panama hats," manufactured at Indian villages on the coast, cinchona bark, caucho, tobacco, orchilla weed, sarsaparilla, and tamarinds.[8] The hats are usually made of the "Toquilla" (_Carludovica palmata_), an arborescent plant about five feet high, resembling the palm.

The Colombian "Panama hat" is made from the fibres extracted from the ribs of the fan-shaped leaves of still another species of palm, _Carludovica palmata_, while in the Rio Sinú region the natives make a kind of butter ("manteca de Corozo") from the _Elaeis melanococca_, Mart., by peeling the nuts in water and then purifying the oil extracted in this way by boiling.

Hat-making from the "jipijapa" fibre taken from the _Carludovica_ palm is a domestic industry in many localities, and furnishes an article of export.

Besides rubber, the forests produce a great variety of cabinet and construction woods, ivory-nuts (from the "tagua" palm, _Phytelephas macrocarpa_), "toquilla" fibre (_Carludovica palmata_) for the manufacture of so-called Panama hats, cabbage palms, several species of cinchona, vanilla and dyewoods.

Towards the upper limits of the Atlantic tropical forests, below the oak region, _Chamædorea_, _Geonoma_, _Bactris_, _Euterpe longepetiolata_ and other palms of the same groups, as well as _Gulielma utilis_ (the pijivalle palm) and _Carludovica microphylla_ are seen in great abundance, mixed with tree ferns like _Alsophylla pruinata_, _Hemitelia horrida_, _Hemitelia grandifolia_, etc.