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in Southern Brazil, and he states that it is called 

 " piacaba " ; so that the Indian name is applied to two 

 distinct trees producing a similar material in different 

 localities ; and the two having been brought to England 

 under the same name and from not very distant ports 

 of the same country, were naturally supposed to be 

 produced by the same tree. The greater part, if not all 

 of the Piassaba now imported, comes, however, from 

 the Rio Negro, where several hundred tons are cut 

 annually and sent to Para, from which place scarcely a 

 vessel sails for England without its forming a part of 

 her cargo. 



