DESCRIPTION: Trunks from 4 to 5 metres in length and 50 
to 60 cms. in diameter. Colour dark-yellow, very uniform. 
Grain fine and netted. Large layer of alburnum. Hard to cut. 
SPECIFIC GRAVITY: From 860 to 957 kgs. 
RESISTANCE: To bending: 1,468 kgs. 
USES: Cabinet-work. Turning. Carved work. Bridges, Deams, 
damp situations. Produces a very caustic resin of medicinal 
value. 
HABITAT: Common throughout the State. 
OBSERVATIONS: A tree of crooked growth, few branches and 
leafy. Leaves large, oval and coarse. Bark thin and smooth, 
spotted and bearing spines. The fruit is a green pod. 
Ubatinga. 
SYNONYMS: Batinga. Vatinga. 
CLASSIFICATION: Eugenia sp. Family: Myrtaceae. Order: 
Myrtiflorae. 
DESCRIPTION: Trunks from 8 to 10 metres in length and 60 
to 80 cms. in diameter. 
SPECIFIC GRAVITY: From 880 to 1,054 kgs. 
RESISTANCE: To crushing: 859 kgs. 
USES: Interior work. Canoes. Oars. Sleepers of third-rate quality, 
lasting five years. Very resistant to flexion. 
HABITAT: In the valleys of the Parahyba and Tieté. 
OBSERVATIONS: A tree of normal growth. Stems slender, 
branching little. Bark thin and tinted. Leaves large and long. 
Urucurana. 
VARIETIES: Urucurana. Urucurana mirim. 
SYNONYMS: Urucurana mirim or Urucurana de prégo. Urucurana 
or Urucurana de leite. 
CLASSIFICATION: Hyeronima alchorneoides F. All. 
Family: Euphorbiaceae. Order: Tricoccae. 
DESCRIPTION:. Urucurana mirim: Trunks from 10 to 12 metres 
in length and 1 metre in diameter. Colour light-yellow very 
uniform, or pinkish with patches. Grain coarse, straight with 
light shades. Large layer of alburnum. Easily carved. 
SPECIFIC GRAVITY: Urucurana: From 707 to 1,084 kgs. Uru- 
curana’mirim: From 849 to 939 kgs. 
RESISTANCE: Urucurana: To crushing: 851 kgs. 
USES: Carts. Carriages. Cabinet-work, Bridges, beams, posts, 
damp situations. Work exposed to the action of salt water 
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