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as I have uo doubt you have the plant growing, for it is abundant near 
Pará. i 
50. Four fruits of the Mungúba (Bombaz Munguba), and cotton of 
another fruit. These fruits were of a clear brick-red colour, but this 
was lost in drying. The seeds are quite ripe and recent, but I presume 
you have the plant already. No use is made of the cotton here, except 
for the stuffing of cushions: it is considered much hotter than feathers. 
51. Sapindus. Bunches of ripe fruit. Herb. 777. Tree, with the 
aspect of the Ash, abundant near Santarem. ‘The fruits are occasion- 
ally used in lieu of soap, especially for shaving. A fruit of this given 
to me last year, which I sent you, I supposed to belong to ZupÁor- 
biacee, in consequence of all three of the ovaries being perfect, a very 
rare circumstance in this Sapindus. 
52. Gum of the Cajú (Anacardium occidentale, L.), taken from an 
old tree on the Campos of Santarem. This is the finest specimen I 
have seen, but it is so fragile that I fear when it reaches you it will be 
in fragments. Besides this, it has been attacked by thousands of ants, 
and though a taste proves fatal to them, they still come on in fresh 
legions. This gum is used here as a varnish. — 
53. Fruit of the Cumandi-acé ; a large tree with pinnated leaves 
on the banks of the Tapajoz. The grated kernels are taken in warm 
water as an emetic, yet they form a favourite food of parrots. 
54. Resin and pod of the Juéaké; a large Leguminous tree in the 
forests of Santarem and Obidos. This resin is commonly used for 
glazing pottery. (There is another species of Jutah?, with larger pods 
and edible seeds, which affords the same gum, but I have not procured 
it; nor have I met with flowers of either species.) : 
55. Fruit of Ingd-Sipé (so called from the pods quite resembling 
some of the twining sipós). Small bushy tree, growing near rivulets 
in the forest of Santarem. Herb. 962. ‘The pulp surrounding the 
seeds is edible, like that of the other Ingés. (I lately sent you seeds 
of this in earth.) 
56. Vessel for containing water, called a Jamarú, being the scooped- 
out fruit of a gourd called by the same name. I have not seen this wild, 
and I know not if it be different from the common bottle-gourd of the 
East. 
57. Fruit of a species of Parkia, a large tree in forests near Santa- 
rem, Herb. 1078. The long fruit-stalks hang perpendicularly down. 
