Café Bravo. 
Guarea sp. Family: Meliaceae. 
This is a small tree; its leaves are small and like those 
of the true coffee plant; flowers white and small, with 
yellow points or spots: fruit, round small and red. Smooth 
bark. Fruit ripens in August. Trunks from 3 to 4 metres 
high, with a diameter of ‘30 to 40 cms. The wood is 
suitable for interior work only, being of second-rate quality. 
Its leaves are used medicinally against snakebites. 
Caixeta. 
VARIETIES: Caixeta branca. 
% vermelha. 
SYNONYMS: Caxeta. Pdo Parahyba. Malacacheta. Cacheta 
vermelha or Tayavevuia. 
CLASSIFICATION: Tabebuia leucoxyla DC. Family: Bigno- 
niaceae. Order: Passiflorinae. 
DESCRIPTION: Trunks from 8 to 10 metres long with 80 cms 
diameter. : i 
Colour, uniformly white or slightly reddish ‘with con- 
spicuous veins. Coarse, straight grain. 
Easily carved. 
SPECIFIC GRAVITY: Caixeta branca: 400 to 510 kilogs. 
5 vermelha: 460 to 560 kilogs. 
USES: Boxes, panelling. Interior wood-work. Does not crack 
nor warp in the sun. The Caixeta vermelha is superior to 
the other variety. 
HABITAT: Is common throughout the State. 
OBSERVATIONS: This is a tree of erect and large growth with 
few branches. There is found in the valley of the Ribeira 
a tree, called the Araxixa, branching, with high top, and 
producing a nut with 4 cavities containing edible fruit 
when cooked. Its trunk is from, 6 to § metres high, with a 
white wood like the Choupo and is used for making 
matches. 
The Caixetas of the coast regions are superior to 
those growing in other parts. 
Cambara. 
VARIETIES: Cambara. 
af poca. 
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