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perfumed in the months of July and August, when the Zngá-açú is in 
flower. 
121. Iriartea pruriens, MSS. Flowers (with stem and leaves) of 
the Blowing-cane Palm; not very good, but the only flowering speci- 
men I have seen. 
117. Fruits and leaves of Zriodendron sp.; an E. Samaiima, Mart. ? 
On high ground near the Rio Manaquiry, a small tributary of the So- 
limões. The white cotton of these fruits is what is called * Samaúma,” 
throughout the Amazon ; but I was surprised to find that the tree pro- 
ducing it is a totally different species from the large “Samaúma do gapó," 
of the trunk of which I lately sent you a sketch. The Samavima-tinga 
(white-cotton tree) rarely exceeds 60 feet in height by 2 feet in dia- 
meter; it has no ‘sapopemas,’ and the trunk is aculeate to the very 
base. The Samaúma do gapó is said to yield a brownish cotton; and 
there is a third species of Zriodendron, of the “terra firme,” also an 
immense tree, said to yield a yellowish cotton, Which of these three 
is the Eriodendron Samaiima of Martius? 
118. Fruit of the Guaraná of the Rio Negro; possibly distinct from. 
that of the Mauhés. I have not seen the leaves. 
119. Fruit of a Mimoseous tree called Paricé. By the Rio Janauari, 
which runs into the mouth of the Rio Negro; also throughout the So- 
limões and its tributaries. Tree 50 feet by 2 feet; bark muricated ; 
flowers white. 
The seeds are roasted and ground in the same way as coffee, and the 
powder taken as snuff or in a clyster. It is used chiefly by Indians 
dwelling southward of the Solimões, especially by the Maras, Purupurus, 
and Cataüixís, and all seem to have the same mode of taking it. The 
bone of a bird’s leg is cut across, and the two pieces joined with cotton- 
wrapping at such an angle that, one end being placed in the mouth, the 
other reaches the nostrils; a portion of Parieá is then put into the 
tube, and one end being applied to the mouth, the Paricá is blown 
from the other end with great force up the nose. The clyster-pipe 1$ 
made on the same principle, of the long leg-bone of the Tuyuyá (Myc- 
teria Americana). The effect of Paricé taken as snuff is to speedily 
induce a sort of intoxication, resembling in its symptoms that p: 
by Amanita muscaria. Taken as a clyster it is a purge, more or kes 
violent according to the quantity employed. When the Cataiix 1$ 
about to set forth a-hunting, he takes a small clyster of Paricd, and. 
