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Mapurakuni, or Maipaye. The bark is used by the Indians for 

 colouring their arrow-points and pottery, as it produces a fine red 

 colour when steeped in water and mixed with Curraweru. It is a 

 large forest-tree. 



Burueh, Bully, or Bullet-tree (Mimusops sp.). A tree of the 

 largest size, often 6 feet in diameter, and having the trunk destitute 

 of branches nearly to the top. Leaves, branches and trunk producing 

 a whitish milk ; fruits the size of a coffee-berry, and when ripe very 

 delicious. Wood extremely solid, heavy, close-grained and durable ; 

 dark brown, variegated with small white specks ; chiefly used in 

 house-framing, for posts, floors, &c., as the weather has but little 

 influence on it, but also esteemed the most valuable timber for the 

 arms, shafts, &c. of windmills. It squares from 20 to 30 inches, and 

 may be obtained from 30 to 60 feet long. In salt or brackish water it 

 is sure to be attacked by the worms. A tree cut down by the author 

 at Cuyuni, measured 67 feet to the first branches, and thence to the 

 top 49 feet— in all 116 feet. 



Payou-yeh (Etaballia Guianensis, Benth.). A tree growing only 

 near the Upper Essequibo and very abundantly along the Rupununi 

 and Takutu, the heart of which is highly ornamental, but not more 

 than 6 inches in diameter, and very subject to holes. 



Maipurimu (Yantanea Guianensis, Aubl.). Wood very subject to 

 worms, and not likely to become of much use ; but the tree presents 

 a beautiful appearance with its large clusters of pink flowers, and is 

 even more remarkable for its drupaceous fruit, which is furrowed like 

 our peaches and almonds, and is cut in half by the Indians to form 

 ornaments, chiefly for the children. 



Camara, Camacusack, Makoripong, or Ackawai-Nutmeg (Acrodi- 

 clidium Camara, Schomb.). Timber most like the Siruaballis, aroma- 

 tic and bitter, and consequently resisting worms and insects. Trunk 

 40 or 50 feet high, with a circumference of 8 to 10 feet, and apt (like 

 the Yarura and Mora) to form tabular projections at the lower part. 

 Chiefly prized for its aromatic fruit, which is considered one of the 

 most eflficacious remedies in colic, dianhcea and dysentery. 



Greenheart, Sipiri (Nectandra Rodigei, Schomb.), The brown 

 Greenheart is one of the most useful timber-trees of the colony, and 

 is found in great abundance within 100 miles of the Coast Region. It 

 grows to the height of about 60 feet, and is generally used for house- 

 frames, wharfs, bridges, piles and planks. Within the last twenty 

 years a large quantity has been imported into Liverpool and Greenock; 

 and it has been even asserted that in strength and durability it is 



