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names of JPomme Jacot, Pot-de-chamhre Jacot, and Fomwe de singe. 

 The fleshy red mesocarp of their drupes is eaten by birds, and its 

 juice might serve as a dye, like arnotto.' In Europe, we often 

 receive from Madagascar and the Mascarene Islands rods of 

 so-called iuuchivood (Fr., boia a allumcr) from which we can in fact 

 obtain fire by rubbing them briskly together. The wood, of very 

 little solidity, traversed by very regular medullary rays, and the 

 large spongy pith, would seem to indicate that, despite the doubts 

 that have been expressed, this touchwood is really that of a Tam- 

 buurimsa. 



Flac, Ilist. de la Oiatule lie de Madagascar, 133. 



