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Marangaba, Psidium Pigmeum : — Arrud. Cent. 

 Plant. Pern. 



This is a species of goiaba plant which does not attain 

 more than two or three feet in height; it abounds in the 

 chapada of the Serra Araripe of Cariri Novo. * 



Plants of Pernambuco. 



Carapitaia, Carlotea formosissima : — Arrud. Cent. 

 Plant. Pern. 



Bilros, Carlotea Speciosa : — Arrud. Cent. Plant. 

 Pern. 



generally used than the coco oil. The fruit resembles much that 

 of the coco naia, according to Arruda's description of the latter. 



Labat, who has a propensity to call in question the opinions of 

 others, in speaking of the tree which he calls palmier franc ou 

 dottier, says, " On pretend que cet arbre est male etfemelle, fyc. Je 

 suisfdchc dene pouvoir pas souscrire au sentiment des naturalistes, 

 vitas j* en suis empeche par tine experience que fai tres-sure, oppose'e 

 directement a leur sentiment, pui dement absolument ce que je viens de 

 rapporter sur leur bonne foi ; car nous avions un dottier a cote' de 

 notre convent du Mouillage a la Martinique, qui rapportoit du fruit 

 quoiqu'il fut tout seul. Qu'ilfut male ou femelle, je rien scai rien, 

 mais ce queje scai tres certainement, c'est que dans le terrain ou est le 

 Fort Saint Pierre et le Mouillage et a plus de deux lieu'es a la ronde il 

 riy avoit et n'y avoit jamais eu de dattier" §c. — Nouveau Voyage, 

 &c. torn. iii. p. 276. 



fn front of my house at Itamaraca, there was a dendezeiro which 

 stood alone, and I know that there was no other tree of the same 

 species any where within sight. The tree bore fruit. — Transl. 



* The goiaba is to be found in all situations in Pernambuco ; 

 there is scarcely a cercado (field) of any sugar-plantation which has 

 not several of these trees scattered about upon it. The goiaba is 

 never cut down, for the people are fond of it, and the cattle like- 

 wise feed upon it. The araca is another species of the same plant ; 

 the shrub and the fruit of this is smaller than the goiaba, and the 

 inside of the fruit is of a pale yellow colour, instead of a deep 

 red. — Transl 



