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{Artocarpus integrifolia) just now hung with its great pitted 

 fruits that grow out of the trunk or main branches, never among 

 the twigs. As the larger fruits, are from 40-60 pounds in weight, 

 the jaca as the Brazilians call this native of Eastern Asia, is a 

 striking object. Another such avenue is lined with mango, 

 another with Chrysalidocarpus lutescens, another with bamboo. 

 In the bamboo path, very dense and shady, the pistol-like 

 reports of their stems are startling in a high wind, and even in 

 a mild one there is a constant moaning and crunching of stems. 

 When a sudden high wind quickly wrenches loose two or three 

 stems that have been locked together, they give out this noisy 

 protest against such treatment. 



Another avenue is lined with andiroba {Carapa guianensis) 

 with its solitary pendulous fruits about the shape and size of 

 an orange. It furnishes a widely used timber in Brazil. Fortu- 

 nately its wood is not so hard or heavy as some Amazonian 

 woods which are little used as they defy ordinary wood-working 

 tools. There is no attempt to have anything like a complete 

 growing collection of Brazilian timber trees, for it would cover 

 hundreds of acres. Besides andiroba, however, there are mature 

 specimens of the jacaranda {Dalbergia Spruceana), acapu 

 {Vouacapoua americana), cedro {Cedrela odorata), angelim 

 {Pithecolohium racemiflorum) , and of course the pau Brasil 

 {Caesalpinia echinata) the tree from which the country was 

 named. Originally the Portuguese call Brazil "Vera Cruz." 

 It gradually lost this name from the great amount of exported 

 dye-wood called Brasil-wood which then gave to Brazil the 

 name "the country of the Brasil-wood," subsequently "the 

 Brasils" and finally its present name and spelling.* There are 

 many other less known timber trees in cultivation and one 

 famous one, the mahogany, which is nowhere native in Brazil. 



The great richness of the palm collection is perhaps not 

 surprising considering the immense wealth of palms in the 

 country. The last guide book to the collections lists 160 species 

 in cultivation in 1922. Obviously one cannot attempt here 

 anything like complete notice of even a fraction of such a 



* The name originally came from an eastern dye-wood called bresil, 

 much imported into Europe by caravan and oriental shipping before the dis- 

 covery of America. When the Portuguese landed at Bahia in 1500, they began 

 cutting the local tree and quite naturally, and mistakenly, called it bresil. 



