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VARIOUS TREES. 



they are newly smoothed, and made ready for shipping to 

 England. 



Many other valuable woods come from this region. Rose- 

 wood is common on the northern coast of Honduras. The 

 bushes which produce gum-arabic abound in all the open 

 savannahs on the Pacific slope. In the forest is found the 



THE IPECACUANHA. 



copaiba-tree, producing a healing liquid. Here also are found 

 the copal-tree, the palma-christi, the ipecacuanha — the root of 

 which is so extensively used in medicine — the liquid amber, 

 as well as caoutchouc. Here the vast ceiba, or silk-cotton tree, 

 is abundant, from which canoes are frequently hollowed out. 

 Indeed, a considerable number of the trees found on the banks 

 of the Orinoco and Amazon here also come to perfection. 



