CLASSIFICATION: Lecythis sp. Family: Lecythidaceae. 
DESCRIPTION: Trunks from 10 to 12 metres in length and 0.80 
to 1 metre in diameter. 
Colour white or brown with very conspicuous patches 
and veins of a red tint. Grain straight coarse and very 
distinct. Hard to cut. 
SPECIFIC GRAVITY: Sapucaia branca: From 827 to 1,026 kgs. 
Sapucaia vermelha: From 956 to 1,077 kgs. 
RESISTANCE: Sapucaia branca: To crushing: 658 kgs. .Sapucaia 
vermelha: To crushing: 729 kgs. 
USES: Ship-building. Fencing-timber. Scaffold-poles, posts, damp 
situations. Cabinet-work and carriages. 
The bast is used for making ropes and tow for calking. 
Both varieties are put to the same uses. The plant. yields 
a dye used by textile manufacturers. 
HABITAT: Sierra del Mar. 
OBSERVATIONS: A tall tree. Bark coarse and furrowed. Leaves 
lanceolate and large. Flowers in small clusters, white and 
pink. Fruit round and large, coriaceous, and opening in 
the upper part, lid-fashion. 
Sapuva. 
Sapuva. Sapuva-assi. Sapuva-mirim. Platymisium sp. 
Order: Leguminosae. Timber used for general building pur- 
poses of third-rate quality. Interior work. Sp. gr. 600 kgs. 
A high tree, smooth bark. Fruit a pod. Flowers very small. 
Is met with in the North of the State. 
Sucupira. 
VARIETIES: Sucupira-assi. Sucupira-mirim. 
SYNONYMS: Sicupira. Sibipira. 
Sucupira-mirim or Sucupira d’agua. 
CLASSIFICATION: Bowdichia virgiloides H. B. et K. Order: 
Leguminosae. 
DESCRIPTION: Trunks from 8 to 10 metres in length and 60 
to 80 cms. in diameter. Colour uniformly brown. 
The Sucupira-assi has coarse grain and in layers. 
Hard to cut. 
The Sucupira-mirim has very fine grain, hard and irreg- 
ular. Is very hard to carve. 
SPECIFIC GRAVITY: Sucupira-assti: From 944 to 990 kgs. Su- 
cupira-mirim: From 863 to 1,061 kgs. 
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