Crossword-Solution: ELAEIS 6 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 6

Groups of the Elaeis Guineansis palm embowering some dun-brown village; an array of majestic, superb growth of mvule trees; a broad extent covered with vivid green sorghum stalks; parachute-like tops of mimosa; a line of white sand, on which native canoes are drawn far above the reach of the plangent, uneasy surf; fishermen idly reclining in the shade of a tree;--these are the scenes which reveal themselves to us as we voyage in our canoe on the Tanganika.

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.

The profits obtained from ground-nuts (_Arachis hypogea_) in Gambia, gold mining in the Gold Coast, and from products of the oil palm (_Elaeis guineensis_) in the palm-oil belt serve to prevent much attention being given to cotton in these districts.

The leaves of the date palm, _Phoenix dactylifera_, are employed locally in making baskets and mats, and the fibro-vascular bundles are isolated for working up into coarse twine and rope; similarly, the leaves of the _Elaeis guineensis_, the fruit of which yields the "palm oil" of commerce, yield a fibre which finds employment locally (Africa) for special purposes.