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rows of two or three. Vessel walls -fitmrjit-udinal section) 

 with very miraerous, small round, bordered pits. Perforations 

 siaiple. ',7ood fibers with moderately thick walls and small 

 lumina , ^nd a few small, lit-like pits. V/ood parenchyma not 

 strongly developed, 3ays very mimeroas, not visible under 

 the hand lens on a smooth transverse section, cne or rarely 

 two cells wide and from a fev/ to 12 or more cells hi^ih. 



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Distribaticn, common names and uses 



X afoensia jjunicifolia ranges from liexico southward across 

 Central America and alon^j the v/estern slopes of the inaes to 

 Jolivia. In Idexico, it is kncv/n as palo mcreno , in :}uatemala 

 as palo culebra or x->^lo ^^ culebra (snake -wood) , while in Pa- 

 naraa it was formerly the origin of cne of the ^jrincipal dyes 

 of the native Indians, in the form of a beautiful yellow co- 

 lor, l^his is probably the origin of the name aoarillo, used 

 at Chepo. 'J]here are, however, s^everal tinds of amari lloa . 

 lafoensia punicifclia is the snar lllo de frutc , an3~"the iden- 

 tity of the amarillo ^esl y amarTllo calabaauelo is still un- 

 certain. I'he wood is fine grained and hard, and applied to 

 various uses. 



L ecythidaceae 

 The large ^.lonlcey-Pot Tree 



Leoythis ampla Lliers, in Trans. Linn. 3oc. 30, 1;204. 1874. 



Description of the tree 



A very tail tree, 30 to 40 meters high, 1 to 1.50 meters 

 in diameter at the base, the trunk erect, branching at the 

 top only and covered with a blackish, rimose and fibrous bark, 

 the crown broadly s^^reading, the branchlets slender, purplish 

 and verriioulose v/ithout. (Leaver small, subcoriacoous, gla- 

 brous, exstipulato, the petioles slender, G ;:ia. long-, the 



