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a bath of Genipa dye. ! Amon^j the Chocoes, the use of the 

 same decoction is more general and indiscriminate, men, 

 women and children appearing at times uniformly smeared with 

 the bluish black liquid, other times with only their hands, 

 feet or some other part of the body in the same color, v/hile 

 for feast days they adorn themselves with elaborate patterns, 

 mostly monochrom, but also often varied by means of other 

 vegetable pigments.] 



The corymbose imajoua 



Amajoua corymbosa H.3.X. Nov. Gen. & 3p. 3:419, t. 294. 



1818. 



Description of the tree 



& small dioecious tree up to 8 meters high and about 

 30 cm. in diam. at the base, the bark more or less shaggy, 

 grayish brown, the crown scant and irregular. ^Leaves coria- 

 ceous, the petioles half terete, 1 to 1.6 cm. lonej, narrow- 

 ly canaliculate, the blades ovate, or ovate-eiliptlc, subcu- 

 neate at the oase, briefly and obtusely acuminate, 10 to 25 

 mm. lon^, 4 to 9 cm. broad, glabrous above, pilose pubescent 

 on the costa and veins beneath; stipules oblong, acute, 1.5 

 cm. long, membraneous, glandulous at the base within. I'.^le 

 inflorescence corymbose, loose, the rachis silky ferrugi- 

 nous, the peduncles compressed. Flowers hexamerous; calyx 

 cupula r-tub;ilous, silky pubescent, 6-toothed, 3 to 4 ram. 

 long; corolla 18-19 ram. long, the lobules lanceolate, fal- 

 cate, slightly tomentellous without, the tube sv/ollen, pu- 

 berulous at the base; -tamens 6 mm. long, inserted on the 

 corolla tube, i'emale inflorescence capitate, few flowered, 

 the peduncles 0.5 to 1.5 cm. long, ^^lowers sessile; calyx 

 3 to 4 mm. long; corolla 10 mm. long; stamens sterile; ovary 

 oblong, 3 mm. long; style clavate, 6 mm. long. 3erry small, 

 2-celled, many-seeded, crowned with a thick disc] 



