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GALACTODENDRON UTILE. Pato DE VACA; 
or Cow Tree of the Caracas. 
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Class and Order. 
>” (The Flowers unknown.) 
( Nat. Ord.—Unrrices. ) 
Generic Character. 
Fructus facie drupe juglandis, globosus, subcarnosus, 
viridis, fetus nuce monosperma. Arbor lactescens, preser- 
tim truncus ; Jac copiosum, album, glutinosum, haud acre, 
potabile, odorem balsameum redolens, contactu aeris coa- 
gulans ; ramuli teretes, glabri; juniores angulati, tenuissime 
canescenti-puberuli. Gemme terminales, subulate, convo- 
lute, sericeo-pubescentes. Folia alterna, petiolata, ob- 
longa, utrinque rotundata, apice brevissime acuminata, in- 
tegerrima, reticulato-venosa, venis primariis transversis, 
paulo approximatis nervoque medio subtus prominentibus, 
subcoriacea, glaberrima, exsiccata, supra viridia, subtus 
aureo-fusca (?), 2—10-pollicaria, 3—4 pollices lata. Petz- 
oli crassi, canaliculati, glabri, 8—9 lineas longi. Stipule 
petiolares nulla. Kunth. 
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Specific Name and Synonyms. 
Gaxacropenpron * utile. ae cae ® : 
Gatacropenpron utile. H. B. K. Gen. et Sp. Pl. Gq. v. 
7. p.16. Kunth, Syn. 4. p. 198. es 
Gaxactropenpron Humb. Relation Hist. 2. p. 106, &c. 
Paro pe Vaca. Humb. in Ann. du Mus. v. 2. p. 180. 
Boussing. et Rivero, in Ann. de Chimie, v. 23. p. 219. 
Murray, Deser. Acc. of the Palo de Vaca, with a 
Jigure. 
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* yara, yaraxros, milk, and dsvdpor, a tree s—milk-bearing tree. 
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