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tree, called Jacaré-úba, or the Alligator-tree: it was used by a gentle- 
man of the Barra, on a voyage up the Rio Negro, on an occasion when 
his tinder having been spoiled by the water, one of his Indians under- 
took to procure him fire, and succeeded by this method. 
63. Milk of the Cuma-t, or Sorveira (Collophora sp.), the “ Cow- 
tree” of the Rio Negro. "The milk is sweet, thinnish, and very viscid ; 
when dry it is more brittle than caoutchoue, which it otherwise much 
resembles, 
64. Fruit and leaves of a small tree, 15 feet high, unbranched, with 
a crown of large pinnate leaves, and a large terminal panicle.— Forests 
on the Rio Negro. I have frequently observed this tree, always pre- 
serving the same habit, but have only once found its fruit. 
65. Carajurí, a red dye, prepared from the leaves of Bignonia Chica, 
and used by the Indians of South America for painting their bodies, 
arrows, ete. It is in this way that the Indians on the Rio Negro make 
it up for sale. The bag is made from the bark of a large tree called 
the Tururí, in this way :—a piece of a branch is beaten until the bark 
can be drawn off; this is then tied up at one end, and being turned 
inside out, forms a bag.—The Uauapé Indians make jackets of this 
bark in the same way. 
66. Cord of Tucúm (Astrocaryum vulgare, Mart.), and bundles of 
raw fibre. This “fibre” is merely the leaves of the young shoot of 
the Tucám Palm (which, before it bursts forth, is quite colourless), 
torn up into shreds: it needs no cleansing process of any kind. 
66*. A “ Couro de Xeringue,” or “hide of India-rubber," made on 
the Paraná-mirí dos Ramos. 
67. Macacarecuya, or ** Monkey's drinking-cup," the fruit of a Lecy- 
this (a tree of from 60 to 80 feet), growing in forests near the Barra. 
68. Another Macacarecuya (and leaves).— By streams near the 
Barra. Tree, 15 feet by 6 inches, with long weak branches. 
69. Capsules only of a Lecythis, found under a lofty tree, in forests 
near the Barra. — 
70. Urucurt (? Attalea excelsa, Mart.,—not Cocos coronata, Mart., 
the Urucurí of Martius). Three fruits, used on the Ramos in smoking 
Xeringue. 
T1. Guaraná (Paullinia sorbilis, Mart.). Bunch of fruit from Luzéa, 
on the Rio Mauhé. 
72. Cord made by a Mára Indian, of a sipó called Ituá (? a Legu- 
