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choice wood in the Montana. It grows on the western 

 tributaries of the Maranon, as the Napo and Huallaga, 

 where it is used in canoe-building, etc. 



CocoBOLO. — An excellent timber of Moyobamba, the 

 heart of a very large tree. It is reddish and very strong ; 

 often used for making the cogs of wheels. 



Jacaee-uba, the Palo Maria of Bolivians and Calojphyl- 

 lum Brasiliense of science, is an elastic wood used for 

 making canoes. The trunk is a yard in diameter. 



CuMATSiBA, a very hard, heavy, reddish wood with a 

 white bark, from tlie Ucayali ; sometimes confounded 

 with the Ma9arandu.ba. 



Aleso {Betida acuminata) is one of the most abundant 

 and useful trees in the Quitonian Andes, descending the 

 Pastassa to near 4000 feet. 



LupUNA, one of the largest trees on the Huallaga, has a 

 gray bark and umbrella-like top. The wood is used for 

 building ; and rails of it are taken down the Maranon on 

 the steamers. 



AssAEQTJiEo is a large tree on the Upper Maranon, 

 resembling Cinchona; the wood is not hard, but dura- 

 ble. 



Chawinto. — The very tough wood of the Gtiayusa, 

 used at Moyobamba. Sacha-vacca chawinto is another 

 very hard, reddish wood, of the same region. 



Saugee de Deago. — This is the strong, red wood of a 

 species of Croton which grows around Moyobamba — a 

 straight tree of eighty feet, with black shining bark and 

 buttress roots. 



Balsa, or Cefba. — An exceedingly light white wood, 

 the " Raft- wood " of the Upper Maranon. It resembles 

 our Cotton -wood. The tree {OcTiroma j)iscatoria) is 

 about as large as the Maple, and the fruit has a cotton-like 

 covering, used for mattresses. The raft-wood-trees on the 



