170 BOTANICAL OBJECTS COMMUNICATED 
3. Pindoba Palm (Attalea compta, Mart.). Spathe, spadix, and 
fruit. 
4. Fruit of a Lecythidea, from the Cachoeiras of the Rio Aripecurá. 
This fruit, when gathered, had an exceedingly aromatie arillus, which 
the ants speedily devoured. 
5. Fruit of a Lecythidea, from the Cachoeiras of the Rio Aripa 
6. Fruit of some tree, from the Cachoeiras of the Rio Aripecurú. 
7. Cédro (Ictca, sp.?): bark and leaves. Forests on the Rio 
Trombétas. 
8. Bacába Palm (Gnocarpus Bacaba, Mart.). Marshy forests, near 
Santarem. From the fruit of this palm an oil is extracted, which burns 
very clear; a wine is also made from it nearly equalling that of the 
Assai, but much paler. 
9. Burnt bark of Caraipé. In this state it is mixed with clay to 
make the fire-proof pottery. 
10. Fruit of some Cucurbitacea, cleared of its pulp by the ants, and 
used as gun-wadding by the Indians and others on the Rio Tapajoz. 
11. Seeds of a twiner called Pao de Sobáo (apparently some Zuphor- 
biacea), with the thin pulp of which a lather is speedily raised. In the 
interior the settlers often use it for shaving, but I have not yet been 
able to get a sight of the plant. 
12. Cunhai Palm: leaves, spathes, spadices, and fruit, Shady 
forests near Santarem. Slender Palm of 8-12 feet high; the stem 
smooth and annulate only in the upper part. (Cunhai, in Lingoa Géral, 
means “little woman.") Vix Syagrus cocoides, Mart. ? 
18. Jará Palm: leaves, spathes, spadices, and fruit. Santarem, on 
the shores of a small lake. Humble Palm, of from 6-14 feet high; 
the stem clad with the persistent bases of the leaves, as it were, with a 
network of fibres. The stems are much used as palisades for gardens 
and quintals. Conf. Leopoldinia pulchra, Mart. 
14. Sucu-uba (Plumeria phagedenica, Mart.). Open sandy campos 
at Santarem. Small tree of 20-30 feet. The milk, which is very 
abundant in every part of the plant, is considered an excellent vermi- 
fuge. (Wood, fruit.) Herb. 356. 
15. Shell of the Cupu-assá. This is filled with seeds enclosed in à 
subacid pulp, from which an excellent lemonade is prepared. The 
tree is lofty; it is wild near Pará, but at Santarem occurs only in the 
Rocos. 
