Ma9Aranduba oe Cow-tree. 



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foliage. It lias entire, alternate leaves, a deeply -scored, 

 reddish, ragged bark (used for dying cloth), palatable fruit 

 and milk, and a hard, fine-grained, heavy (sp, gr. 1.172), 

 reddish wood, very durable in water — more so than Itaiiba 

 even — and the toughest of all the Amazonian woods, yet 

 splitting easily. It is largely used for construction and for 



Leaves, Frnit, aud Flower of Map aranduba. 



furniture, and would be admirable for ship-building. The 

 young trees have a dark -red centre, surrounded with a 

 white softer wood. It grows on dry lands along the whole 

 length of the Great River, from Para to the Upper Mara- 

 non, also on the Rio Negro, and probably other affluents. 



LoiRo, or LouRO, one of the most useful woods in Brazil, 

 and growing every where on the Amazons and Maranon. 



