IBS.] 



FABAI i 





long l" ■ 11 celebrated for their gigantic Btature, and otlier i 



South American forests. Martius repn 



this kind occurred of Buch enormous dim< u ions, thai 



arms, could only just embrat le oi them. 



At the bottom they were B4 feet in circum- 

 ference, and 60 feel where thi boles became 

 cylindrical. Bj < nting the concentric 



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rings of such parts as were accessible, he arrived :it the coi lus 

 i>f me age of Homer, and 332 years old in the days of Pytli 

 reduced their antiquity !■> 2052 years, while another carried it \\\> to 

 he argues that the trees cannot bul date far beyond th< 

 Some Indian species also yield good timber; others, as Bnul 

 Bora, have bark employed in making rope. Vn oil is expi 

 as Ccesalpinia oleosperma ; others exude a mild gum lik< ii 

 plants, which have al the Bame time an astringent bark \ 

 said by Roxburgh to be afforded by his Bauhinia reti » 

 Bmarginata, in me Deyra Doon, and called Sem k< irond. 

 yields a gum resembling Gum Senegal, in the pri ■ 

 The ivsin Anime is procured from Hymensea Courbaril : ' 

 posed to be the produce of some plant allied to tins Tl at <>f 

 of the East Indies generally, is furnished by Hymei 

 Bows from several species of Hymensea, and from Trachyl 

 Aloexylum Agallochum produces one of the two 



lk. CC< I \ \ 1 \ —Brazilian Trees, supposed to be olderl 



